1. A fuller account of Oscar’s career is given in the first two volumes of this series, namely, “Oscar” and “Clinton.”
2. Whistler was partly right. The domestic cat, when deprived of a home, sometimes takes to the woods, and leads a savage life. It is then a wild-cat; but it is a very different pussy, for all that, from the large, tiger-like creature to which that name properly belongs.
3. Pronounced YOT.
4. “Dreams and Realities in the Life of a Pastor and Teacher.” 1856.