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88 ["The bigos was not of course prepared then and there on the

spot. It is usually made in large quantities, put into barrels,

and stored in cellars. The oftener it is heated the more savoury

it is."-M. A. Biggs.]

89 [See p. 333.]

90 Queen Dido had a bull's hide cut into strips, and thus

enclosed within the circuit of the hide a considerable territory,

where she afterwards built Carthage. The Seneschal did not read

the description of this event in the Aeneid, but in all

probability in the scholiasts' commentaries.

N.B.-Some places in the fourth book are by the hand of Stefan

Witwicki.]

91 Once in the Diet the deputy Philip, from the village of

Konopie (hemp), obtaining the floor, wandered so far from the

subject that he raised a general laugh in the chamber. Hence

arose the proverb: "He has bobbed up like Philip from the hemp."

92 [There is here an untranslatable pun in the original; niemiec,

the Polish word for German, is derived from niemy, dumb.]