ABSTRACT
First published Edinburgh Evening Post, 14 June 1828, p. 41. Reprinted Glasgow Courier, 3 July 1828 [p. 4]. Reprinted Tave, pp. 358–68 (with attribution, pp. 383–7). Signs of authorship include italics and dashes, colloquialisms like ‘humbug’, rhetorical questions, the italicization of ‘that’ the use of a series marked by ‘1st’, ‘2dly’, &c., and private allusions to Coleridge and Wordsworth.
