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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December 28, 1850
+       A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,
+       Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.
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+Author: Various
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+Release Date: July 31, 2005 [EBook #16404]
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+NOTES AND QUERIES:
+
+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NO. 61.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1850. [Price Threepence.
+Stamped Edition 4d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *{505}
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+  NOTES:--                                                   Page
+    Illustrations of Scottish Ballads, by Richard John King   505
+    The Red Hand--The Holt Family--Vincent Family             506
+    Vondel's Lucifer, by Janus Dousa                          507
+    A Myth of Midridge                                        509
+    Folk Lore Miscellanies:--St. Thomas's Day--Black Doll
+      at Old Store-shops--Snake Charming--Mice as a
+      Medicine--"Many Nits, many Pits"--Swans hatched
+      during Thunder--Snakes--Pixies or Piskies--Straw
+      Necklaces--Breaking Judas' Bones                        509
+        Local Rhymes and Proverbs of Devonshire               511
+        A Christmas Carol                                     513
+        A Note for little Boys                                513
+        Similarity of Traditions                              513
+        Pixey Legends                                         514
+        The Pool of the Black Hound                           515
+        Popular Rhymes                                        515
+    Minor Notes:--"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde"--
+      Inscription on an Alms-dish--The Use of the French
+      Word "savez"--Job's Luck--The Assassination of
+      Mountfort in For folk Street, Strand--The Oldenburgh
+      Horn--Curious Custom--Kite--Epitaph on John
+      Randal--Playing Cards                                   515
+
+
+  QUERIES:--
+    Dragons: their Origin                                     517
+    John Sanderson, or the Cushion Dance; and Bab at the
+      Bowster                                                 517
+    Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by J.H. Friswell                  518
+    Minor Queries:--Boiling to Death--Meaning of
+      "Mocker"--"Away, let nought to love displeasing"
+      --Baron Muenchausen--"Sing Tantararara Rogues
+      all," &c.--Meaning of "Cauking"                         519
+
+  REPLIES:--
+    The Wise Men of Gotham, by J.B. Colman                    520
+    Replies to Minor Queries:--Master John Shorne--
+      Antiquity of Smoking--Meaning of the Word
+      "Thwaites"--Thomas Rogers of Horninger--Earl
+      of Roscommon--Parse--The Meaning of "Version"
+      --First Paper-mill in England--"Torn by Horses"
+      --Vineyards--Cardinal--Weights for Weighing
+      Coins--Umbrella--Croziers and Pastoral Staves           520
+
+  MISCELLANEOUS:--
+    Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                    523
+    Notices to Correspondents                                 524
+    Advertisements                                            524
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCOTTISH BALLADS.
+
+In the ballad of "Annan Water" (_Border Minstrelsy_, vol. iii.) is the
+following verse:--
+
+    "O he has pour'd aff his dapperpy coat,
+       The silver buttons glanced bonny;
+     The waistcoat bursted aff his breast,
+       He was sae full of melancholy."
+
+A very unexpected effect of sorrow, but one that does not seem to be
+unprecedented. "A plague of sighing and grief," says Falstaff. "It blows
+a man up like a bladder."
+
+A remarkable illustration of Falstaff's assertion, and of the Scottish
+ballad, is to be found in this _Saga of Egil Skallagrimson_. Bodvar, the
+son of Egil, was wrecked on the coast of Iceland. His body was thrown up
+by the waves near Einarsness, where Egil found it, and buried it in the
+tomb of his father Skallagrim. The _Saga_ continues thus:--
+
+    "After that, Egil rode home to Borgar; and when he came there, he
+    went straightway into the locked chamber where he was wont to sleep;
+    and there he laid him down, and shot forth the bolt. No man dared
+    speak a word to him. And thus it is said that Egil was clad when he
+    laid Bodvar in the tomb. His hose were bound fast about his legs,
+    and he had on a red linen kirtle, narrow above, and tied with
+    strings at the sides. And men say that his body swelled so greatly
+    that his kirtle burst from off him, and so did his hose."--P. 602.
+
+It is well known that the subjects of many ballads are common to
+Scotland, and to the countries of Northern Europe. Thus, the fine old
+"Douglas Tragedy," the scene of which is pointed out at Blackhouse
+Tower, on the Yarrow, is equally localised in Denmark:
+
+    "Seven large stones," says Sir Walter, "erected upon the
+    neighbouring heights of Blackhouse, are shown as marking the spot
+    where the seven brethren were slain; and the Douglas Burn is avowed
+    to have been the stream at which the lovers stopped to drink; so
+    minute is tradition in ascertaining, the scene of a tragical tale,
+    which, considering, the rude state of former times, had probably
+    foundation in some real event."
+
+The corresponding Danish ballad, however, that of "Ribolt and Guldborg,"
+which has been translated by Mr. Jamieson, is not less minute in
+pointing out the scene of action. The origin of ballads, which are thus
+widely spread, must probably be sought in very high antiquity; and we
+cannot wonder if we find them undergoing considerable {506} change in
+the passage from one country to another. At least the "Douglas Tragedy"
+betrays one very singular mark of having lost something of the original.
+
+In "Ribolt and Guldborg," when the lady's brothers have all but
+overtaken the fugitives, the knight addresses her thus:
+
+    "Light down, Guldborg, my lady dear,
+     And hald our steeds lay the renyes here.
+     And e'en sae be that ye see me fa'
+     Be sure that ye never upon me ca';
+     And e'en sae be that ye see me bleed,
+     Be sure that ye name na' me till dead."
+
+Ribolt kills her father and her two eldest brothers, and then Guldborg
+can no longer restrain herself:
+
+    "Hald, hald, my Ribolt, dearest mine,
+     Now belt thy brand, for its 'mair nor time.
+     My youngest brother ye spare, O spare,
+     To my mither the dowie news to bear."
+
+But she has broken her lover's mysterious caution, and he is mortally
+wounded in consequence:
+
+    "When Ribolt's name she named that stound,
+    'Twas then that he gat his deadly wound."
+
+In the Scottish ballad, no such caution is given; nor is the lady's
+calling on her lover's name at all alluded to as being the cause of his
+death. It is so, however, as in the Danish version:
+
+    "She held his steed in her milk-white hand,
+       And never shed one tear,
+     Until that she saw her seven brethren fa',
+       And her father hard fighting, who loved her so dear.
+
+    "O hold your hand, Lord William, she said,
+       For your strokes they are wondrous sair;
+     True lovers I can get many a ane,
+       But a father I can never get mair."
+
+There is no note in the _Kaempe Viser_, says Mr. Jamieson, on this
+subject; nor does he attempt to explain it himself. It has, however, a
+clear reference to a very curious Northern superstition.
+
+Thorkelin, in the essay on the Berserkir, appended to his edition of the
+_Kristni-Saga_, tells us that an old name of the Berserk frenzy was
+_hamremmi_, _i.e._, strength acquired from another or strange body,
+because it was anciently believed that the persons who were liable to
+this frenzy were mysteriously endowed, during its accesses, with a
+strange body of unearthly strength. If, however, the Berserk was called
+on by his own name, he lost his mysterious form, and his ordinary
+strength alone remained. Thus it happens in the _Svarfdaela Saga:_
+
+    "Gris called aloud to Klanfi, and said, 'Klanfi, Klanfi! keep a fair
+    measure,' and instantly the strength which Klanfi had got in his
+    rage, failed him; so that now he could not even lift the beam with
+    which he had been fighting."
+
+It is clear, therefore, continues Thorkelin, that the state of men
+labouring under the Berserk frenzy was held by some, at least, to
+resemble that of those, who, whilst their own body lay at home
+apparently dead or asleep, wandered under other forms into distant
+places and countries. Such wanderings were called _hamfarir_ by the old
+northmen; and were held to be only capable of performance by those who
+had attained the very utmost skill in magic.
+
+RICHARD JOHN KING.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RED HAND.--THE HOLT FAMILY.
+(Vol. ii., pp. 248. 451.)
+
+Your correspondent ESTE, in allusion to the arms of the Holt
+family, in a window of the church of Aston-juxta-Birmingham, refers to
+the tradition that one of the family "murdered his cook, and was
+afterwards compelled to adopt the red hand in his arms." Este is
+perfectly correct in his concise but comprehensive particulars. That
+which, by the illiterate, is termed "the bloody hand," and by them
+reputed as an abatement of honour, is nothing more than the "Ulster
+badge" of dignity. The tradition adds, that Sir Thomas Holt murdered the
+cook in a cellar, at the old family mansion, by "running him through
+with a spit," and afterwards buried him beneath the spot where the
+tragedy was enacted. I merely revert to the subject, because, within the
+last three months, the ancient family residence, where the murder is
+said to have been committed, has been levelled with the ground; and
+among persons who from their position in society might be supposed to be
+better informed, considerable anxiety has been expressed to ascertain
+whether any portion of the skeleton of the murdered cook has been
+discovered beneath the flooring of the cellar, which tradition, fomented
+by illiterate gossip, pointed out as the place of his interment. Your
+correspondents would confer a heraldic benefit if they would point out
+other instances--which I believe to exist--where family reputation has
+been damaged by similar ignorance in heraldic interpretation.
+
+The ancient family residence to which I have referred was situated at
+Duddeston, a hamlet adjoining Birmingham. Here the Holts resided until
+May, 1631, when Sir Thomas took up his abode at Ashton Hall, a noble
+structure in the Elizabethan style of architecture, which, according to
+a contemporary inscription, was commenced in April, 1618, and completed
+in 1635. Sir Thomas was a decided royalist, and maintained his
+allegiance to his sovereign, although the men of Birmingham were
+notorious for their disaffection, and the neighbouring garrison of
+Edgbaston was occupied by Parliamentarian troops. When Charles I., of
+glorious or unhappy memory, was on his way from Shrewsbury to the
+important battle of Edgehill, {507} on the confines of Warwickshire, he
+remained with Sir Thomas, as his guest, from the 15th to the 17th of
+October (vide Mauley's _Iter Carolinum_, Gutch's _Collectanea_, vol. ii.
+p. 425.); and a closet is still pointed out to the visitor where he is
+said to have been concealed. A neighbouring eminence is to the present
+day called "King's Standing," from the fact of the unhappy monarch
+having stood thereon whilst addressing his troops. By his acts of
+loyalty, Sir Thomas Holt acquired the hostility of his rebellious
+neighbours; and accordingly we learn that on the 18th of December, 1643,
+he had recourse to Colonel Leveson, who "put forty muskettiers into the
+house" to avert impending dangers; but eight days afterwards, on the
+26th of December, "the rebels, 1,200 strong, assaulted it, and the day
+following tooke it, kil'd 12, and ye rest made prisoners, though w'th
+losse of 60 of themselves." (Vide Dugdale's _Diary_, edited by Hamper,
+4to. p. 57.) The grand staircase, deservedly so entitled, bears evident
+marks of the injury occasioned at this period, and an offending
+cannon-ball is still preserved.
+
+Edward, the son and heir of Sir Thomas, died at Oxford, on the 28th
+August, 1643, and was buried in Christ Church. He was an ardent
+supporter of the king. The old baronet was selected as ambassador to
+Spain by Charles I., but was excused on account of his infirmities. He
+died A.D. 1654, in the eighty-third year of his age. His excellence and
+benevolence of character would afford presumptive evidence of the
+falsehood of the tradition, if it were not totally exploded by the
+absurdity of the hypothesis upon which it is grounded. Sir Thomas was
+succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Robert, who in compliance
+with his will built an almshouse or hospital for five men and five
+women. It is unnecessary to pursue the family further, excepting to
+state that nearly at the close of the last century the entail was cut
+off: the family is now unknown in the neighbourhood, excepting in its
+collateral branches, and the hall has passed into the possession of
+strangers. Its last occupant was James Watt, Esq., son of the eminent
+mechanical philosopher. He died about two years ago, and the venerable
+mansion remains tenantless.
+
+With reference to the ancient family residence of the Holts, at
+Duddeston, it will be sufficient to observe, that in the middle of the
+last century the house and grounds were converted into a tavern and
+pleasure gardens, under the metropolitan title of Vauxhall: and for a
+century they continued to afford healthful recreation and scenic
+amusement to the busy inhabitants of Birmingham. The amazing increase in
+the size and population of the town has at length demanded this
+interesting site for building purposes. Within the last three months the
+house and gardens have been entirely dismantled, a range of building has
+already been erected, and old Vauxhall is now numbered amongst the
+things that were.
+
+J. GOODWIN.
+
+Birmingham.
+
+
+_"Bloody Hands at Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey._--The legends of Sir Richard
+Baker (Vol. ii., pp. 67. 244.) and of a member of the Holt family (Vol.
+ii., p. 451.) recall to my mind one somewhat similar, connected with a
+monument in the church of Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, the appearance of a
+"bloody hand" upon which was thus accounted for to me:--
+
+    "Two young brothers of the family of Vincent, the elder of whom had
+    just come into possession of the estate, were out shooting on
+    Fairmile Common, about two miles from the village; they had put up
+    several birds, but had not been able to get a single shot, when the
+    elder swore with an oath that he would fire at whatever they next
+    met with. They had not gone much further before the miller of a mill
+    near at hand (and which is still standing) passed them, and made
+    some trifling remark. As soon as he had got by, the younger brother
+    jokingly reminded the elder of his oath, whereupon the latter
+    immediately fired at the miller, who fell dead upon the spot. Young
+    Vincent escaped to his home, and by the influence of his family,
+    backed by large sums of money, no effective steps were taken to
+    apprehend him, and he was concealed in the 'Nunnery' on his estate
+    for some years, when death put a period to the insupportable anguish
+    of his mind. To commemorate his rash act and his untimely death,
+    this 'bloody hand' was placed on his monument."
+
+So runs the story as far as I remember; the date I cannot recollect. The
+legend was told me after I had left the church, and I had paid no
+particular attention to the monument; but I thought at the time that the
+hand might be only the Ulster badge. I shall be obliged to any of your
+readers who will throw further light upon this matter. A pilgrimage to
+Stoke d'Abernon, whose church contains the earliest known brass in
+England, would not be uninteresting even at this season of the year.
+
+ARUN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VONDEL'S LUCIFER.
+
+I have to complain of injustice done by a correspondent of "NOTES
+AND QUERIES," to the Dutch poet Vondel. To the question mooted by
+F. (Vol. i. p. 142.), whether my countryman's _Lucifer_ has ever been
+translated into English, Hermes answers by a passage taken from the
+_Foreign Quarterly Review_ for April, 1829; and subjoins a list of the
+_dramatis personae_ "given from the _original Dutch_ before him. The
+tragedy itself is condensed by your correspondent into a simple "&c."
+Now, if HERMES, instead of referring to a stale review for a
+comparison between Vondel's tragedy and the _Paradise Lost_, without
+showing by _any_ proof that Milton's justly renowned epic {508} is
+indeed superior to this, one of the Dutch poet's masterpiece--if
+HERMES, being, as I conclude from his own words, conversant
+with the language of _our_ Shakspeare, had taken pains to _read
+Lucifer_, he would not have repeated a statement unfavourable to
+Vondel's poetical genius. I, for my part, will _not_ hazard a judgment
+on poems so different and yet so alike, I will _not_ sneer at Milton's
+demon-gods of Olympus, nor laugh at "their artillery discharged in the
+daylight of heaven;" for such instances of bad taste are to be
+considered as clouds setting off the glories of the whole; but _this_ I
+will say, that Vondel wrote his _Lucifer_ in 1654, the sixty-seventh of
+his life, while Milton's _Paradise Lost_ was composed four years later.
+The honour of precedence, in time, at least, belongs to my countryman.
+All the odds were against the British poet's competitor, if one who
+wrote before him may be so called; for, while Milton enjoyed every
+privilege of a sound classical education, Vondel had still to begin a
+course of study when more than twenty-six years of age; and, while the
+Dutch poet told the price of homely stockings to prosaic burghers, the
+writer of _Paradise Lost_ was speaking the language of Torquato Tasso in
+the country enraptured by the first sight of _la divina comedia_.
+
+I am no friend of polemical writing, and I believe the less we see of it
+in your friendly periodical, the better it is; but still I _must_
+protest against such copying of partially-written judgments, when good
+information can be got. I say not by stretching out a hand, for the book
+was already opened by your correspondent--but alone by using one's eyes
+and turning over a leaf or two. Else, why did HERMES learn the
+Dutch language? I ask your subscribers if the following verses are
+_weak_, and if they would not have done honour to the English Vondel?
+
+                 CHORUS OF ANGELS.
+
+                  (From _Lucifer_.)
+
+    "Who sits above heaven's heights sublime,
+       Yet fills the grave's profoundest place,
+     Beyond eternity, or time,
+       Or the vast round of viewless space:
+     Who on Himself alone depends--
+       Immortal--glorious--but unseen--
+     And in his mighty being blends
+       What rolls around or flows within.
+     Of all we know not--all we know--
+       Prime source and origin--a sea,
+     Whose waters pour'd on earth below
+       Wake blessing's brightest radiancy.
+    'Tis power, love, wisdom, first exalted
+       And waken'd from oblivion's birth;
+     Yon starry arch--yon palace, vaulted--
+       Yon heaven of heavens, to smile on earth.
+     From his resplendent majesty
+       We shade us 'neath our sheltering wings,
+     While awe-inspired, and tremblingly
+       We praise the glorious King of Kings,
+     With sight and sense confused and dim;
+       O name--describe the Lord of Lords,
+     The seraph's praise shall hallow Him;--
+       Or is the theme too vast for words?"
+
+                     RESPONSE.
+
+    "'Tis God! who pours the living glow
+        Of light, creation's fountain-head:
+      Forgive the praise--too mean and low--
+        Or from the living or the dead.
+      No tongue thy peerless name hath spoken,
+        No space can hold that awful name;
+      The aspiring spirit's wing is broken;--
+        Thou wilt be, wert, and art the same!
+      Language is dumb. Imagination,
+        Knowledge, and science, helpless fall;
+      They are irreverent profanation,
+        And thou, O God! art all in all.
+      How vain on such a thought to dwell!
+        Who knows Thee--Thee the All-unknown?
+      Can angels be thy oracle,
+        Who art--who art Thyself alone?
+      None, none can trace Thy course sublime,
+        For none can catch a ray from Thee,
+      The splendour and the source of time--
+        The Eternal of eternity.
+      Thy light of light outpour'd conveys
+        Salvation in its flight elysian,
+      Brighter than e'en Thy mercy's rays;
+        But vainly would our feeble vision
+      Aspire to Thee. From day to day
+        Age steals on us, but meets thee never;
+      Thy power is life's support and stay--
+        We praise thee, sing thee, Lord! for ever."
+
+                        CHORUS.
+
+    "Holy, holy, holy! Praise--
+       Praise be His in every land;
+     Safety in His presence stays;
+       Sacred is His high command!"
+
+Dr. Bowring's version,--though a good one, if the difficulty be
+considered of giving back a piece of poetry, whose every word is a poem
+in itself, and by whose rhyme and accentuation a feeling of
+indescribable awe is instilled into the most fastidious reader's
+mind,--Dr. Bowring's version is but a feeble reverberation of the holy
+fire pervading our Dutch poet's anthem. But still there rests enough in
+his copy to give one a high idea of the original. I borrow the same
+Englishman's words when I add:--
+
+    "The criticism that instructs, even though it instructs severely, is
+    most salutary and most valuable. It is of the criticism that
+    insults, and while it insults, informs not, that we have a right to
+    complain."--_Batavian Anthology_, p. 6.
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+Manpadt House.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *{509}
+
+
+A MYTH OF MIDRIDGE;
+
+    _Or, A Story anent a witless Wight's Adventures with the Midridge
+    Fairies in the Bishoprick of Durham; now more than two Centuries
+    ago._
+
+Talking about fairies the other day to a nearly Octogenarian female
+neighbour, I asked, had she ever seen one in her youthful days. Her
+answer was in the negative; "but," quoth she, "I've heard my grandmother
+tell a story, that Midridge (near Auckland) was a great place for
+fairies when she was a child, and for many long years after that." A
+rather lofty hill, only a short distance from the village, was their
+chief place of resort, and around it they used to dance, not by dozens,
+but by hundreds, when the gloaming began to show itself of the summer
+nights. Occasionally a villager used to visit the scene of their gambols
+in order to catch if it were but a passing glance of the tiny folks,
+dressed in their vestments of green, as delicate as the thread of the
+gossamer: for well knew the lass so favoured, that ere the current year
+had disappeared, she would have become the happy wife of the object of
+her only love; and also, as well ken'd the lucky lad that he too would
+get a weel tochered lassie, long afore his brow became wrinkled with
+age, or the snow-white blossoms had begun to bud forth upon his pate.
+Woe to those, however, who dared to come by twos or by threes, with
+inquisitive and curious eye, within the bounds of their domain; for if
+caught, or only the eye of a fairy fell upon them, ill was sure to
+betide them through life. Still more awful, however, was the result if
+any were so rash as to address them, either in plain prose or rustic
+rhyme. The last instance of their being spoken to, is thus still handed
+down by tradition:--''Twas on a beautifully clear evening in the month
+of August, when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their
+master's hagyard, and after calling the "harvest home," the daytale-men
+and household servants were enjoying themselves over massive pewter
+quarts foaming over with strong beer, that the subject of the evening's
+conversation at last turned upon the fairies of the neighbouring hill,
+and each related his oft-told tale which he had learned by rote from the
+lips of some parish grandame. At last the senior of the mirthful party
+proposed to a youthful mate of his, who had dared to doubt even the
+existence of such creatures, that he durst not go to the hill, mounted
+on his master's best palfrey, and call aloud, at the full extent of his
+voice, the following rhymes:
+
+            "Rise little Lads,
+             Wi' your iron gads,
+    And set the Lad o' Midridge hame."
+
+Tam o' Shanter-like, elated with the contents of the pewter vessels, he
+nothing either feared or doubted, and off went the lad to the fairy
+hill; so, being arrived at the base, he was nothing loth to extend his
+voice to its utmost powers in giving utterance to the above invitatory
+verses. Scarcely had the last words escaped his lips ere he was nearly
+surrounded by many hundreds of the little folks, who are ever ready to
+revenge, with the infliction of the most dreadful punishment, every
+attempt at insult. The most robust of the fairies, who I take to have
+been Oberon, their king, wielding an enormous javelin, thus, also in
+rhymes equally rough, rude, and rustic, addressed the witless wight:
+
+              "Silly Willy, mount thy filly;
+               And if it isn't weel corn'd and fed,
+    I'll ha' thee afore thou gets hame to thy Midridge bed."
+
+Well was it for Willy that his home was not far distant, and that part
+light was still remaining in the sky. Horrified beyond measure, he
+struck his spurs into the sides of his beast, who, equally alarmed,
+darted off as quick as lightning towards the mansion of its owner.
+Luckily it was one of those houses of olden time, which would admit of
+an equestrian and his horse within its portals without danger; lucky,
+also, was it that at the moment they arrived the door was standing wide
+open: so, considering the house a safer sanctuary from the belligerous
+fairies than the stable, he galloped direct into the hall, to the no
+small amazement of all beholders, when the door was instantly closed
+upon his pursuing foes! As soon as Willy was able to draw his breath,
+and had in part overcome the effects of his fear, he related to his
+comrades a full and particular account of his adventures with the
+fairies; but from that time forward, never more could any one, either
+for love or money, prevail upon Willy to give the fairies of the hill an
+invitation to take an evening walk with him as far as the village of
+Midridge!
+
+To conclude, when the fairies had departed, and it was considered safe
+to unbar the door, to give egress to Willy and his filly, it was found,
+to the amazement of all beholders, that the identical iron javelin of
+the fairy king had pierced through the thick oaken door, which for
+service as well as safety was strongly plated with iron, where it still
+stuck, and actually required the strength of the stoutest fellow in the
+company, with the aid of a smith's great fore-hammer, to drive it forth.
+This singular relic of fairy-land was preserved for many generations,
+till passing eventually into the hands of one who cared for none of
+those things, it was lost, to the no small regret of all lovers of
+legendary lore!
+
+M.A.D.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FOLK LORE.
+
+_St. Thomas's Day._--A Guernsey charm _pour ve ki ke sera son amant_--
+
+"Into a golden pippin stick eighteen new pins, nine in the eye, and nine
+in the stem, tie round it the left {510} garter, and place it under the
+pillow. Get into bed backwards, saying,
+
+    "Le jour de St. Thomas,
+     Le plus court, le plus bas,
+     Je prie Dieu journellement,
+     Qu'il me fasse voir, en dormant,
+     Celui qui sera mon amant;
+     Et le pays et la contree
+     Ou il fera sa demeuree,
+     Tel qu'il sera je l'aimerai,
+                Ainsi soit-il."
+
+VIATOR.
+
+NOV. 6. 1850.
+
+
+_Black Doll at Old Store-shops_ (Vol. i., p. 27.).--Is it not probable
+that the black doll was an image of the Virgin, sold at the Reformation
+with a lot of church vestments, and other "rags of Popery," as the
+Puritans called the surplice, and first hung up by some Puritan or
+Hebrew dealer.
+
+Images of the black Virgin are not uncommon in Roman Catholic churches.
+Has the colour an Egyptian origin, or whence is it?
+
+A. HOLT WHITE.
+
+Gladwins, Harlow.
+
+
+_Snake Charming_.--Two or three summers ago, I was told a curious story
+of snake charming by a lady of undoubted veracity, in whose
+neighbourhood (about a dozen miles from Totnes) the occurrence had taken
+place. Two coast-guard men in crossing a field fell in with a snake: one
+of them, an _Irishman_, threw his jacket over the animal, and
+immediately uttered or muttered a charm over it. On taking up the
+garment, after a few seconds had passed, the _snake was dead_.
+
+When I heard this story, and understood that the operator was an
+Irishman, I bethought me of how Rosalind says, "I was never so be-rhymed
+since Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat," and accounted
+satisfactorily for the fact that, "as touching snakes, there are no
+snakes in _Ireland_:" for, as the song voucheth, "the snakes committed
+suicide to save themselves from slaughter," _i.e._ they _were charmed to
+death by St. Patrick_.
+
+I fear it would now be impossible to recover the charm made use of by
+the coast-guard man; but I will have inquiry made, and if I can obtain
+any further particulars, I will forward them to you.
+
+J.M.B.
+
+
+_Mice as a Medicine_ (Vol. ii., pp. 397. 435.).--The remedy of the roast
+mouse recommended in _The Pathway to Health_ (which I find is in the
+British Museum), is also prescribed in _Most Excellent and Approved
+Remedies_, 1652:--"Make it in powder," says the author, "and drink it
+off at one draught, and it will presently help you, especially if you
+use it three mornings together." The following is "an excellent remedy
+to stanch bleeding:"--
+
+    "Take a toad and dry him very well in the sun, then put him in a
+    linen bag, and hang him with a string about the neck of the party
+    that bleedeth, and let it hang so low that it may touch the breast
+    on the left side near unto the heart; and this will certainly stay
+    all manner of bleeding at the mouth, nose," &c.
+
+Sage leaves, yarrow, and ale, are recommended for a "gnawing at the
+heart;" which I think should be "made a note of" for the benefit of poor
+poets and disappointed authors.
+
+WEDSECNARF.
+
+
+_Mice as a Medicine_ (Vol. ii., pp. 397. 435.).--I was stopping about
+three years ago in the house of a gentleman whose cook had been in the
+service of a quondam Canon of Ch. Ch., who averred that she roasted mice
+to cure her master's children of the hooping cough. She said it had the
+effect of so doing.
+
+CHAS. PASLAM.
+
+    "Many Nits, [nuts]
+     Many Pits."
+
+A common saying hereabouts, meaning that if hazel-nuts, haws, hips, &c.,
+are plentiful, many deaths will occur. But whether the deaths are to be
+occasioned by nut-devouring or by seasonal influence, I cannot
+ascertain. In many places, an abundant crop of hips and haws is supposed
+to betoken a severe winter.
+
+CHAS. PASLAM.
+
+
+_Swans hatched during Thunder._--The fable of the singing of swans at
+death is well known; but I recently heard a bit of "folk lore" as to the
+birth of swans quite as poetical, and probably equally true. It is this:
+that swans are always hatched during a thunderstorm. I was told this by
+an old man in Hampshire, who had been connected with the care of swans
+all his life. He, however, knew nothing about their singing at death.
+
+Is this opinion as to the birth of swans common? If so, probably some of
+your numerous correspondents will detail the form in which such belief
+is expressed.
+
+ROBERT RAWLINSON.
+
+
+_Snakes_ (Vol. ii., p. 164.).--Several years ago, in returning from an
+excursion from Clevedon, in Somerset, to Cadbury Camp, I saw a viper on
+the down, which I pointed out to the old woman in charge of the donkeys,
+who assailed it with a stout stick, and nearly killed it. I expressed
+surprise at her leaving it with some remains of life; but she said that,
+whatever she did to it, it would "live till sun-down, and as soon as the
+sun was set it would die." The same superstition prevails in Cornwall,
+and also in Devon.
+
+H.G.T.
+
+
+_Pixies or Piskies._--At Chudleigh Rocks I was told, a few weeks ago, by
+the old man who acts as guide to the caves, of a recent instance of a
+man's being pixy-led. In going home, full of strong drink, across the
+hill above the cavern called the "Pixies' Hole," on a moonlit night, he
+heard sweet {511} music, and was led into the whirling dance by the
+"good folk," who kept on spinning him without mercy, till he fell down
+"in a swoon."
+
+On "coming to himself," he got up and found his way home, where he "took
+to his bed, and never left it again, but died a little while after," the
+victim (I suppose) of _delirium tremens_, or some such disorder, the
+incipient symptoms of which his haunted fancy turned into the sweet
+music in the night wind and the fairy revel on the heath. In the tale I
+have above given he persisted (said the old man), when the medical
+attendant who was called in inquired of him the symptoms of his illness.
+This occurrence happened, I understood, very recently, and was told to
+me in perfect good faith.
+
+I have just been told of a man who several years ago lost his way on
+Whitchurch Down, near Tavistock. The farther he went the farther he had
+to go; but happily calling to mind the antidote "in such case made and
+provided," he turned his coat inside out, after which he had no
+difficulty in finding his way. "He was supposed," adds my informant, "to
+be pisky-led."
+
+About ten miles from Launceston, on the Bodmin road (or at least in that
+direction) is a large piece of water called Dosmere (pronounced Dosmery)
+Pool. A tradition of the neighbourhood says that on the shores of this
+lonely mere the ghosts of bad men are ever employed in binding the sand
+"in bundles with _beams_ of the same" (a local word meaning _bands_, in
+Devonshire called _beans;_ as _hay-beans_, and in this neighbourhood
+hay-_beams_, for hay-bands). These ghosts, or some of them, were driven
+out (they say "_horsewhipped_ out," at any rate exorcised in some sort)
+"by the parson" from Launceston.
+
+H.G.T.
+
+Launceston.
+
+
+_Straw Necklaces_ (Vol. i., p. 104).--Perhaps these straw necklaces were
+anciently worn to preserve their possessors against _witchcraft_; for,
+till the thirteenth century, straw was spread on the floors to defend a
+house from the same evil agencies. Cf. _Le Grand d'Aussi Vie des Anciens
+Francs_, tom. iii. pp. 132. 134; "NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. i.,
+pp. 245. 294.
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+
+_Breaking Judas' Bones._--On Good Friday eve the children at Boppart, on
+the Rhine, in Germany, have the custom of making a most horrid noise
+with _rattles_. They call it _breaking the bones of Judas_. Cf.
+"NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. i., p. 357.
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+
+LOCAL RHYMES AND PROVERBS OF DEVONSHIRE.
+
+    "River of Dart, oh river of Dart,
+     Every year thou claim'st a heart."
+
+It is said that a year never passes without the drowning of one person,
+at least, in the Dart. The river has but few fords, and, like all
+mountain streams, it is liable to sudden risings, when the water comes
+down with great strength and violence. Compare Chambers' _Popular
+Rhymes_, p. 8., "Tweed said to Till," &c. See also Olaus Wormius,
+_Monumenta Danica_, p. 17.
+
+The moormen never say "_the_ Dart," but always "Dart." "Dart came down
+last night--he is very full this morning." The _cry_ of the river is the
+name given to that louder sound which rises toward nightfall. Cranmere
+Pool, the source of the Dart, is a place of punishment for unhappy
+spirits. They may frequently be heard wailing in the morasses there.
+Compare Leyden _Scenes of Infancy_, pp. 315, 316., &c.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Wescote (_View of Devonshire_: Exeter, 1845 (reprint), p. 348.) has a
+curious story of the Tamar and Torridge. It is worth comparing with a
+local rhyme given by Chambers, p. 26.: "Annan, Tweed, and Clyde," &c.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "When Haldon hath a hat
+     Kenton may beware a skat."
+
+This often quoted saying is curiously illustrated by a passage from the
+romance of Sir Gawaya and the Grene Knicht (Madden's _Sir Gawaya_, p.
+77.):
+
+    "Mist muged on the mor, malt on the mountes,
+     _Uch hille hadde a hatte_, a myst-hakel huge."
+
+In the note on this passage Sir Frederick quotes two proverbs like the
+Devonshire one above. They are, however, well known, and there is no
+lack of similar sayings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "When Plymouth was a furzy down,
+     Plympton was a borough town."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When Brutus of Troy landed at Totnes, he gave the town its name; thus,--
+
+    "Here I sit, and here I rest,
+     And this town shall be called Totnes."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone,
+     When the Conqueror came, were found at home."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "Who on the Sabbath pares his horn,
+    'Twere better for him he had never been born."
+
+    "At toto Thori die hominibus ungues secare minime licuit."
+    --Finn Magnusen, _Lex. Edd._, s.v. _Thor_.
+
+In the district of Bohnsland, in Sweden, in the middle of the eighteenth
+century, it was not thought proper to fell wood on the afternoon of
+Thursday. (Id.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "Many slones [sloes], many groans,
+     Many nits [nuts], many pits."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "When the aspen leaves are no bigger than your nail,
+     Is the time to look out for truff and peel."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *{512}
+
+_Margaret's Flood_.--Heavy rain is expected about the time of St.
+Margaret's day (July 20th). It is called "Margaret's flood."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "Widdecombe folks are picking their geese,
+           Faster, faster, faster."
+
+A saying among the parishes of the south coast during a snow-storm.
+'Widdecombe' is "Widdecombe in the Dartmoors."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "Quiet sow, quiet mow."
+
+A saying with reference to land or lease held on lives. If the seed is
+sown without notice of the death of the life, the corn may be reaped,
+although the death took place before the sowing.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Bees.--
+
+    "If they swarm in May,
+     They're worth a pound next day.
+     If they swarm in July,
+     They're not worth a fly."
+
+Bees must never be bought. It is best to give a sack of wheat for a
+hive.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Dinnick_ is the Devonshire name of a small bird, said to follow and
+feed the cuckoo.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A cat will not remain in a house with an unburied corpse; and rooks will
+leave the place until after the funeral, if the rookery be near the
+house.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is proper to make a low bow whenever a single magpie is seen.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is not considered safe to plant a bed of lilies of the valley; the
+person doing so will probably die in the course of the next twelve
+months.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Where the rainbow rests, is a crock of gold.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A cork under the pillow is a certain cure for cramp.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Seven different herbs must be used for making a herb poultice.
+
+    "The editor remembers a female relation of a former vicar of St.
+    Erth, who, instructed by a dream, prepared decoctions of various
+    herbs, and repairing to the Land's End, poured them into the sea,
+    with certain incantations, with the expectation of seeing the
+    Lionesse rise immediately out of the water having all its
+    inhabitants alive, notwithstanding their long immersion."--Davies
+    Gilbert's _Cornwall_, vol. iii. p. 310.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+If the fire blazes up brightly when the crock is hung up, it is a sign
+there is a stranger coming.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Cure for Thrush_.--Take the child to a running stream, draw a straw
+through its mouth, and repeat the verse, "Out of the mouth of babes and
+sucklings," &c.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A creature of enormous size, called a "bull-frog," is believed to live
+under the foundation stones of old houses, hedges, &c. I remember having
+heard it spoken of with great awe.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Hen and Chickens._--In a parish adjoining Dartmoor is a green fairy
+ring of considerable size, within which a black hen and chickens are
+occasionally seen at nightfall.
+
+The vicar of a certain Devonshire parish was a distinguished student of
+the black art, and possessed a large collection of mysterious books and
+manuscripts. During his absence at church, one of his servants visited
+his study, and finding a large volume open on the desk, imprudently
+began to read it aloud. He had scarcely read half a page when the sky
+became dark, and a great wind shook the house violently; still he read
+on; and in the midst of the storm the door flew open, and a black hen
+and chickens came into the room. They were of the ordinary size when
+they first appeared, but gradually became larger and larger, until the
+hen was of the bigness of a good sized ox. At this point the vicar
+suddenly closed his discourse, and dismissed his congregation, saying he
+was wanted at home, and hoped he might arrive there in time. When he
+entered the chamber the hen was already touching the ceiling. But he
+threw down a bag of rice, which stood ready in the corner; and whilst
+the hen and chickens were busily picking up the grains, he had time to
+reverse the spell.--(Ceridwer takes the form of a hen in the _Hanes
+Taliesin_.) I believe a hen and chickens is sometimes found on the
+bosses of early church roofs. A sow and pigs certainly are. A black sow
+and pigs haunt many cross roads in Devonshire.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The _Dewerstone_ is a lofty mass of rock rising above the bed of the
+Plym, on the southern edge of Dartmoor. During a deep snow, the traces
+of a naked human foot and of a cloven hoof were found ascending to the
+highest point. The valley below is haunted by a black headless dog.
+Query, is it Dewerstone, Tiwes-tun, or Tiwes-stan?--(Kemble's _Saxons_,
+vol. i. p. 351.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The great Cromlech at Drewsteignton is said to have been erected by
+three _spinsters_ (meaning _spinners_); another legend says by three
+young men. The first is the more usual saying. The Cromlech is generally
+called "The Spinster's Rock." Rowe (_Dartmoor_, p. 99.) suggests that
+the three spinsters were the Valkyrien, or perhaps the Fates. He is no
+doubt right.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Rock and stone legends abound. A great quoit on the top of Heltor is
+said to have been thrown {513} there by the Devil during fight with King
+Arthur. Adin's Hole (Etin's) is the name of a sea cavern near Torquay;
+another is Daddy's Hole. The Devil long hindered the building of
+Buckfastleigh Church, which stands on the top of a steep hill. A stone,
+at about the distance of a mile, has the marks of his finger and thumb.
+The stone circles, &c. on Dartmoor, are said to have been made "when
+there were wolves on the hills, and winged serpents in the low lands."
+On the side of Belstone Tor, near Oakhampton, is a small grave circle
+called "Nine Stones." It is said to dance every day at noon.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Whoever shall find the treasure hidden in Ringmore Down, may plough with
+a golden plough-share, and yoke his oxen with golden cross-sticks.
+
+R.J.K.
+
+
+A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
+
+The following carol has not, I believe, been printed in any of the
+modern collections; certainly it is not in those of Mr. Sandys and Mr.
+Wright. It is copied from Ad. MS. Brit. Mus. 15,225, a manuscript of the
+time of James I. It may, perhaps, bethought appropriate for insertion in
+your Christmas number. I have modernised the orthography.
+
+         A CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS-DAY.
+
+    Rejoice, rejoice, with heart and voice,
+    For Christ his birth this day rejoice.
+
+                          1.
+
+    From Virgin's womb to us this day did spring
+      The precious seed that only saved man;
+    This day let man rejoice and sweetly sing,
+      Since on this day salvation first began.
+    This day did Christ man's soul from death remove,
+    With glorious saints to dwell in heaven above.
+
+                          2.
+
+    This day to man came pledge of perfect peace,
+      This day to man came love and unity,
+    This day man's grief began for to surcease,
+      This day did man receive a remedy
+    For each offence, and every deadly sin,
+    With guilt of heart that erst he wander'd in.
+
+                          3.
+
+    In Christ his flock let love be surely placed,
+      From Christ his flock let concord hate expel,
+    In Christ his flock let love be so embraced,
+      As we in Christ, and Christ in us, may dwell.
+    Christ is the author of all unity,
+    From whence proceedeth all felicity.
+
+                          4.
+
+    O sing unto this glittering glorious King,
+      And praise His name let every living thing;
+    Let heart and voice, let bells of silver, ring,
+      The comfort that this day to us did bring;
+    Let lute, let shawm, with sound of sweet delight,
+    The joy of Christ his birth this day recite.
+
+BUON. ERIC.
+
+
+A NOTE FOR LITTLE BOYS.
+
+In order that all good little boys who take an interest in the
+"NOTES AND QUERIES" may know how much more lucky it is for them
+to be little boys now, than it was in the ancient times, I would wish
+them to be informed of the cruel manner in which even good little boys
+were liable to be treated by the law of the Ripuarians. When a sale of
+land took place it was required that there should be twelve witnesses,
+and with these as many boys, in whose presence the price of the land
+should be paid, and its formal surrender take place; and then the boys
+were beaten, and their ears pulled, so that the pain thus inflicted upon
+them should make an impression upon their memory, and that they might,
+if necessary, be afterwards witnesses as to the sale and delivery of the
+land. (_Lex Ripuarium LX., de Traditionibus et Testibus._) In a note of
+Balucius upon this passage he states:
+
+    "A practice somewhat similar to this prevails in our our times, for
+    in some of the provinces, whenever a notorious criminal is condemned
+    to death, parents bring their sons with them to the place of
+    execution, and, at the moment that he is put to death, they whip
+    their children with rods, so that being thus excited by their own
+    sufferings, and by seeing the punishment inflicted on another for
+    his sins, they may ever bear in mind how necessary it is for them,
+    in their progress through life, to be prudent and virtuous."--_Rev.
+    Gall. et Franc. Script._, vol. iv. p. 277. n.e.
+
+W.B. MACCABE.
+
+
+SIMILARITY OF TRADITIONS.
+
+Having recently met with some curious instances of the extent to which
+the same or similar traditions extend themselves, not only in our own
+country, but in Wales and France, I have "made a note" of them for your
+service.
+
+_Burying in the church wall_ is supposed to be burying in neutral
+ground.
+
+In the north wall of the church of Tremeirchion, near the banks of the
+Elwy, North Wales (described by Pennant, vol. ii. p. 139.), is the tomb
+of a former vicar, Daffydd Ddu, or the black of Hiradduc, who was vicar
+of the parish, and celebrated as a necromancer, flourishing about 1340.
+Of him the tradition is, that he proved himself more clever than the
+Wicked One himself. A bargain was made between them that the vicar
+should practise the black art with impunity during his life, but that
+the Wicked One should possess his body after death, whether he were
+buried within or without the church; and that the worthy vicar cheated
+his ally of his bargain by being buried neither within nor without the
+church, but in the wall itself.
+
+A very similar tradition exists at Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire, with
+reference to the tomb of Pierce Shonke, which was also in the wall. He
+is said to have died A.D. 1086. Under the feet of the figure {514} was
+a "cross flourie, and under the cross a serpent" (Weever, p. 549.), and
+the inscription is thus translated in Chauncy's _Hertfordshire_, p. 143:
+
+    "Nothing of Cadmus nor St. George, those names
+     Of great renown, survives them, but their fames;
+     Time was so sharp set as to make no bones
+     Of theirs nor of their monumental stones,
+     But _Shonke_ one serpent kills, t'other defies,
+     And in this wall as in a fortress lyes."
+
+Whilst in the north wall of Rouen Cathedral is the tomb of an early
+archbishop, who having accidentally killed a man by hitting him with a
+soup ladle, because the soup given by the servant to the poor was of an
+inferior quality, thought himself unworthy of a resting-place within the
+church, and disliking to be buried without, was interred in the wall
+itself.
+
+
+_Miraculous Cures for Lameness._--The holy well _Y fynnon fair_, or Our
+Lady's Well, near Pont yr allt Goch, close to the Elwy, has to this day
+the reputation of curing lameness so thoroughly, that those who can
+reach it walking on crutches may fling their crutches away on their
+return home. Welsh people still come several miles over the hills to
+this holy spring. A whole family was there when I visited its healing
+waters last month.
+
+The same virtue is ascribed at Rouen to a walk to the altar at St.
+Katherine's Church, at the top of St. Katherine's Hill, where the
+cast-off crutches have been preserved. In the latter case something less
+than a miracle may account for the possibility of going away without
+crutches; for they may be required to mount to a lofty eminence, and may
+well be dispensed with on coming down: but as this supposition would
+lessen the value of a tradition implicitly believed, of course all
+sensible men will reject it at once.
+
+WM. DURANT COOPER.
+
+81. Guilford Street.
+
+
+PIXEY LEGENDS.
+
+In reference to your correspondent H.G.T.'s article on _pixies_ (Vol.
+ii., p. 475.), allow me to say that I have read the distich which he
+quotes in a tale to the following effect:--In one of the southern
+counties of England--(all the pixey tales which I have heard or read
+have their seat laid in the south of England)--there lived a lass who
+was courted and wed by a man who, after marriage, turned out to be a
+drunkard, neglecting his work, which was that of threshing, thereby
+causing his pretty wife to starve. But after she could bear this no
+longer, she dressed herself in her husband's clothes (whilst he slept
+off the effects of his drunkenness), and went to the barn to do her
+husband's work. On the morning of the second day, when she went to the
+barn, she found a large pile of corn threshed, which she had not done;
+and so she found, for three or four days, her pile of corn doubled. One
+night she determined to watch and see who did it, and carrying her
+intention into practice, she saw a little pixey come into the barn with
+a tiny flail, with which he set to work so vigorously that he soon
+threshed a large quantity. During his work he sang,
+
+    "Little Pixey, fair and slim,
+     Without a rag to cover him."
+
+The next day the good woman made a complete suit of miniature clothes,
+and hung them up behind the barn door, and watched to see what _pixey_
+would do. I forgot to mention that he hung his flail behind the door
+when he had done with it.
+
+At the usual time the pixey came to work, went to the door to take down
+his flail, and saw the suit of clothes, took them down, and put them on
+him, and surveyed himself with a satisfied air, and sang
+
+    "Pixey fine, and pixie gay.
+     Pixey now must fly away."
+
+It then flew away, and she never saw it more.
+
+In this tale the word was invariably spelt "pixey."
+
+TYSIL.
+
+
+_Pixies._--The _puckie_-stone is a rock above the Teign, near Chagford.
+In the _Athenaeum_ I mentioned the rags in which the pixies generally
+appear. In _A Narrative of some strange Events that took place in Island
+Magee and Neighbourhood in 1711_, is this description of a spirit that
+troubled the house of Mr. James Hattridge:
+
+    "About the 11th of December, 1710, when the aforesaid Mrs. Hattridge
+    was sitting at the kitchen-fire, in the evening, before daylight
+    going, a little boy (as she and the servants supposed) came in and
+    sat down beside her, having an old black bonnet on his head, with
+    short black hair, a half-worn blanket about him, trailing on the
+    ground behind him, and a _torn_ black vest under it. He seemed to be
+    about ten or twelve years old, but he still covered his face,
+    holding his arm with a piece of the blanket before it. She desired
+    to see his face, but he took no notice of her. Then she asked him
+    several questions; viz., if he was cold or hungry? If he would have
+    any meat? Where he came from, and where he was going? To which he
+    made no answer, but getting up, danced very nimbly, leaping higher
+    than usual, and then ran out of the house as far as the end of the
+    garden, and sometimes into the cowhouse, the servants running after
+    him to see where he would go, but soon lost sight of him; but when
+    they returned, he would be close after them in the house, which he
+    did above a dozen of times. At last the little girl, seeing her
+    master's dog coming in, said, 'Now my master is coming he will take
+    a course with this troublesome creature,' upon which he immediately
+    went away, and troubled them no more till the month of February,
+    1711."
+
+This costume is appropriate enough for an Irish spirit; but here may
+possibly be some connexion with the ragged clothes of the Pixies. (Comp.
+"Tatrman," _Deutsche Mythol._, p. 470.; and Canciani's note "De
+Simulachris de Pannis factis," _Leges Barbar._, iii. p. 108.; _Indic.
+Superst._) The common story of Brownie and his clothes is, I suppose,
+connected. {515}
+
+In some parts of Devonshire the pixies are called "derricks," evidently
+the A.-S. "doeorg." In Cornwall it is believed that wherever the pixies
+are fond of resorting, the depths of the earth are rich in metal. Very
+many mines have been discovered by their singing.
+
+R.J.K.
+
+
+THE POOL OF THE BLACK HOUND.
+
+In the parish of Dean Prior is a narrow wooded valley, watered by a
+streamlet, that in two or three places falls into cascades of
+considerable beauty. At the foot of one of these is a deep hollow called
+the Hound's Pool. Its story is as follows.
+
+There once lived in the hamlet of Dean Combe a weaver of great fame and
+skill. After long prosperity he died, and was buried. But the next day
+he appeared sitting at the loom in his chamber, working diligently as
+when he was alive. His sons applied to the parson, who went accordingly
+to the foot of the stairs, and heard the noise of the weaver's shuttle
+in the room above. "Knowles!" he said, "come down; this is no place for
+thee." "I will," said the weaver, "as soon as I have worked out my
+quill," (the "quill" is the shuttle full of wool). "Nay," said the
+vicar, "thou hast been long enough at thy work; come down at once!"--So
+when the spirit came down, the vicar took a handful of earth from the
+churchyard, and threw it in its face. And in a moment it became a black
+hound. "Follow me," said the vicar; and it followed him to the gate of
+the wood. And when they came there, it seemed as if all the trees in the
+wood were "coming together," so great was the wind. Then the vicar took
+a nutshell with a hole in it, and led the hound to the pool below the
+waterfall. "Take this shell," he said; "and when thou shalt have dipped
+out the pool with it, thou mayst rest--not before." And at mid-day, or
+at midnight, the hound may still be seen at its work.
+
+R.J.K.
+
+
+POPULAR RHYMES.
+
+The following popular rhymes may perhaps amuse some of your readers.
+They are not to be found in the article "Days Lucky or Unlucky," in
+Brand's _Popular Antiquities_, or in Sir Henry Ellis's notes (see his
+edition, vol. ii. p. 27.), and perhaps have never been printed:--
+
+ _Days of the Week.--Marriage._
+
+    "Monday for wealth,
+     Tuesday for health,
+    Wednesday the best day of all;
+     Thursday for crosses,
+     Friday for losses,
+    Saturday no luck at all."
+
+         _Moon._
+
+    "Saturday new,
+     And Sunday full,
+     Never was fine,
+     And never wool."
+
+  _Days of the Week.--Birth._
+
+    "Born of a Monday,
+       Fair in face;
+     Born of a Tuesday,
+       Full of God's grace;
+     Born of a Wednesday,
+       Merry and glad;
+     Born of a Thursday,
+       Sour and sad;
+     Born of a Friday,
+       Godly given;
+     Born of a Saturday,
+       Work for your living;
+     Born of a Sunday,
+       Never shall we want;
+     So there ends the week,
+       And there's an end on't."
+
+     _How to treat a Horse._
+
+    "Up the hill, urge him not;
+     Down the bill, drive him not;
+     Cross the flat, spare him not;
+     To the hostler, trust him not."
+
+  _How to sow Beans._
+
+    "One for the mouse,
+     One for the crow,
+     One to rot,
+     One to grow."
+
+    _January Weather._
+
+    "When the days lengthen,
+    The colds strengthen."
+
+Two German proverbial distiches, similar to the last, are given in
+Koerte's _Sprichwoerter_, p. 548.:
+
+    "Wenn de Dage fangt an to laengen,
+     Fangt de Winter an to strengen."
+
+      "Wenn die Tage langen,
+       Kommt der Winter gegangen."
+
+With the first set of rhymes, we may compare the following verses on
+washing on the successive days of the week, in Halliwell's _Nursery
+Rhymes of England_, p. 42. ed. 3.:
+
+    "They that wash on Monday
+       Have all the week to dry;
+     They that wash on Tuesday,
+       Are not so much awry;
+     They that wash on Wednesday,
+       Are not so much to blame;
+     They that wash on Thursday,
+       Wash for shame;
+     They that wash on Friday,
+       Wash in need;
+     And they that wash on Saturday,
+      Oh! they are sluts indeed."
+
+L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde."_--Have these terms, which play so
+memorable a part in the "Tale of King Edward and the Shepherd" {516}
+(Hartshorne's _Ancient Metrical Tales_) been explained? The shepherd's
+instructions (pp. 48, 49.) seem more zealous than luminous; but it has
+occurred to me that _perhaps_ "passelodion," "passilodyon," or
+"passilodion" may have some reference to the ancient custom of drinking
+from a _peg_-tankard, since [Greek: passalos] means a _peg_, and [Greek:
+passalodia] would be a legitimate pedantic rendering of _peg-song_, or
+_peg-stave_, and _might_ be used to denote an exclamation on having
+_reached the peg_.
+
+H.G.T.
+
+
+_Inscription on an Alms-dish._--In Bardsea Church, Island of Furness, is
+an alms-dish(?) of a large size, apparently very old, gilt, and bearing
+the following inscription:--
+
+    "WYLT : GHY : LANGHELEVEN : SOO : ERT : GODT :
+       ENDE : HOOVT : ZYN : GEBAT : VORWAR."
+
+Bardsea Church is recently erected in a district taken out of Urswick
+parish.
+
+Can any of your readers give an explanation of the inscription?
+
+F.B. RELTON.
+
+[This is another specimen of the alms-dishes, of which several have been
+described in our First Volume. The legend may be rendered, _If thou wilt
+live long, honour God, and above all keep His commandments_.]
+
+
+_The Use of the French Word "savez."_--About fifty years ago the use of
+the French word _savez_, from the verb _savoir_, to know, was in general
+use (and probably is so at the present time) among the negroes in the
+island of Barbadoes,--"_Me no savez, Massa_," for, "I do not know,
+Master (or Sir)." It occurred to the writer at that time as a very
+singular fact, because the French had never occupied that island; nor is
+he aware of any French negroes having been introduced there. He had also
+been informed of its use in other places, but made no note of it. In the
+_Morning Herald_ of the 7th instant there is a statement that the
+Chinese at Canton, speaking a little English, make use of the same word.
+Can any of your readers give an explanation of this?
+
+J.F.
+
+
+_Job's Luck_.--I send you another version of Job's luck, in addition to
+those that have lately appeared in "NOTES AND QUERIES:"
+
+    "The devil engaged with Job's patience to battle,
+     Tooth and nail strove to worry him out of his life;
+     He robb'd him of children, slaves, houses, and cattle,
+     But, mark me, he ne'er thought of taking his wife.
+
+    "But heaven at length Job's forbearance rewards,
+     At length double wealth, double honour arrives,
+     He doubles his children, slaves, houses, and herds,
+     But we don't hear a word of a couple of wives."
+
+A.M.
+
+
+_The Assassination of Mountfort in Norfolk street, Strand._--The murder
+of Mountfort is related with great particularity in Galt's _Lives of the
+Players_, and is also detailed in, if I recollect aright, Mr. Jesse's
+_London and its Celebrities;_ but in neither account is the following
+anecdote mentioned, the purport of which adds, if possible, to the
+blackness of Mohun's character:--
+
+    "Mr. Shorter, Horace Walpole's mother's father, was walking down
+    Norfolk Street in the Strand, to his house there, just before poor
+    Mountfort the player was killed in that street by assassins hired by
+    Lord Mohun. This nobleman lying in for his prey, came up and
+    embraced Mr. Shorter by mistake, saying 'Dear Mountfort.' It was
+    fortunate that he was instantly undeceived, for Mr. Shorter had
+    hardly reached his house before the Murder took
+    place."--_Walpoliana_, vol. ii. p. 97., 2nd ed.
+
+J.B.C.
+
+
+_The Oldenburgh Horn_ (Vol. ii., p. 417.) is preserved amongst the
+antiquities in the Gallery of the King of Denmark at Copenhagen. It is
+of silver gilt, and ornamented in paste with enamel. It is considered by
+the Danish antiquaries to be of the time of Christian I., in the latter
+half of the fifteenth century. There are engraved on it coats of arms
+and inscriptions, which show that it was made for King Christian I., in
+honour of the three kings, or wise men, on whose festival he used it, at
+Cologne.
+
+W.C. TREVELYAN.
+
+Wallington, Dec. 19. 1850.
+
+[We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by Sir Walter
+Trevelyan's communication to add from Vulpius (_Handwoerterbuch der
+Mythologie_) the following additional references to representations and
+descriptions of this celebrated horn--which is there said (p. 184.) to
+have been found in 1639:--Schneider, _Saxon. Vetust._ p. 314.;
+Winkelmann's _Oldenburgische Chronik._ s. 59.; S. Meyer, _Vom
+Oldenburgischen Wunderhorne_, Bremen, 1757.]
+
+
+_Curious Custom_.--In 1833 the late Record Commissioners issued Circular
+Questions to the Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, requesting
+various information; among such questions was the following:--"Do any
+remarkable customs prevail, or have any remarkable customs prevailed
+within memory, in relation to the ceremonies accompanying the choice of
+corporate officers, annual processions, feasts, &c., not noticed in the
+printed histories or accounts of your borough? Describe them, if there
+be such."
+
+To this question the borough of Chippenham, Wilts, replied as
+follows:--"The corporation dine together twice a-year, and _pay for it
+themselves_!" (_Report of Record Commissioners_, 1837, p. 442.)
+
+J.E.
+
+
+_Kite_ (_French_, "_Cerf-volant_").--Some years ago, when reading Dr.
+Paris' popular work called _Philosophy in Sport made Science in
+Earnest_, 5th edition, London, J. Murray, 1842, I observed that the
+author could not explain the meaning of the French term "cerf-volant,"
+applied to the toy so well known among boys in England as a "kite," and
+in Scotland as a "dragon." The following passages will solve this
+mystery: {517}
+
+    "Cerf-volant. Scarabaeus lucanus. Sorte d'insecte volant qui porte
+    des cornes dentelees, comme celles du cerf.
+
+    "Cerf-volant. Ludicra scarabei lucani effigies. On donne ce nom a
+    une sorte de joueet d'enfans qui est compose de quelques batons
+    croises sur lesquels on etend du papier, et exposant cette petite
+    machine a l'air, le moindre vent la fait voler. On la retient et on
+    la tire comme l'on veut, par le moyen d'une longue corde qui y est
+    attachee."--See _Dictionnaire de la Langue Francoise_, de Pierre
+    Richelet; a Amsterdam, 1732.
+
+In Kirby and Spence's _Entomology_, vol. ii. p. 224., they mention "the
+terrific and protended jaws of the stag-beetle of Europe, the _Lucanus
+Cervus_ of Linnaeus."
+
+The "toothed horns" alluded to by Richelet are represented by the pieces
+of stiff paper fastened at intervals, and at right angles, to the
+string-tail of the toy kite, or dragon, so much delighted in by boys at
+certain seasons of the year in England and Scotland.
+
+G.F.G.
+
+Edinburgh.
+
+
+_Epitaph on John Randal._--As a counterpart to Palise's death, I have
+sent a Warwickshire epitaph, taken from Watford Magna churchyard,
+written about the same period:
+
+    "Here old John Randal lies, who counting by his sale,
+     Lived three score years and ten, such virtue was in ale;
+     Ale was his meat, ale was his drink, ale did his heart revive,
+     And could he still have drunk his ale, he still had been alive."
+
+J.R.
+
+
+_Playing Cards._--As a rider to THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT'S Query
+respecting his playing cards (Vol. ii., p. 462.), I would throw out a
+suggestion to all your readers for notices of similar emblematic playing
+cards: whether such were ever used for playing with? what period so
+introduced? and where? as both France and Spain lay claim to their first
+introduction. I see that Mr. Caton exhibited at one of the meetings of
+the Archaeological Institute this season a curious little volume of small
+county maps, numbered so as to serve as a pack of cards (described more
+fully in the _Archaeological Journal_ for September, 1850, p 306.), and
+which I regret I did not see.
+
+W.H.P.
+
+Wanstead, Dec. 13. 1850.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+DRAGONS: THEIR ORIGIN.
+
+When passing through the city of Bruenn, in Moravia, rather more than a
+year ago, my attention was drawn to the _Lindwurm_ or dragon, preserved
+there from a very remote period. This monster, according to tradition,
+was invulnerable, like his brother of Wantley, except in a few
+well-guarded points, and from his particular predilection in favour of
+veal and young children, was the scourge and terror of the
+neighbourhood. The broken armour and well-picked bones of many doughty
+knights, scattered around the entrance to the cave he inhabited,
+testified to the impunity with which he had long carried on his
+depredations, in spite of numerous attempts to destroy him. Craftiness,
+however, at last prevailed where force had proved of no effect, and the
+Lindwurm fell a victim to the skill of a knight, whose name I believe
+has been handed down to posterity. The mode adopted by the warrior to
+deceive his opponent, was to stuff, as true to nature as possible, with
+unslaked lime, the skin of a freshly killed calf, which he laid before
+the dragon's cave. The monster, smelling the skin, is said to have
+rushed out and instantly to have swallowed the fatal repast, and feeling
+afterwards, as may be readily expected, a most insatiable thirst,
+hurried off to a neighbouring stream, where he drank until the water,
+acting upon the lime, caused him to burst. The inhabitants, on learning
+the joyful news, carried the knight and the Lindwurm in triumph into the
+city of Bruenn, where they have ever since treasured up the memento of
+their former tyrant. The animal, or reptile, thus preserved, is
+undoubtedly of the crocodile or alligator species, although I regret it
+was not in my power to examine it more particularly, evening having set
+in when I saw it in the arched passage leading to the town-hall of the
+city where it has been suspended. I fear also that any attempt to count
+the distinguishing bones would be fruitless, the scaly back having been
+covered with a too liberal supply of pitch, with the view to protection
+from the weather.
+
+Have any of your readers seen this _Lindwurm_ under more favourable
+circumstances than myself, and can they throw any light on the genus to
+which it belongs?
+
+May not the various legends respecting dragons, &c., have their origin
+from similar circumstances to those of this Bruenn Lindwurm, which I take
+to leave strong proof of fact, the body being there? Perhaps some of our
+correspondents may have it in their power to give further corroborative
+evidence of the former existence of dragons under the shape of
+crocodiles. The description of the Wantley dragon tallies with that of
+the crocodile very nearly.
+
+R.S., Jun.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+JOAN SANDERSON, OR THE CUSHION DANCE; AND BAB AT THE BOWSTER.
+
+Can any of your numerous valuable correspondents give me the correct
+date, or any clue to it, of the above dance. There is little doubt of
+its great antiquity. The dance is begun by a single person (either a
+woman or man), who {518} dances about the room with a cushion in his
+hand, and at the end of the tune stops and sings:
+
+    "This dance it will no further go!"
+
+            [_The Musician answers._]
+
+    "I pray you, good sir, why say you so?"
+
+                     [_Man._]
+
+    "Because Joan Sanderson will not come to!"
+
+                   [_Music._]
+
+    "She must come to, and she shall come to,
+     And she must come whither she will or no."
+
+He now lays down the cushion before a woman, on which she kneels, and he
+kisses her, singing:
+
+    "Welcome, Joan Sanderson, welcome, welcome."
+
+She rises with the cushion, and both dance about, singing:
+
+    "Prinkum-prankum is a fine dance,
+     And shall we go dance it once again,
+           And once again,
+     And shall we go dance it once again?"
+
+Then making a stop, the woman sings, as before:
+
+    "This dance it will no further go!"
+
+                    [_Music._]
+
+    "I pray you, madam, why say you so?"
+
+                   [_Woman._]
+
+    "Because John Sanderson will not come to."
+
+                   [_Music._]
+
+    "He must come to," &c.
+
+And so she lays down the cushion before a man, who, kneeling, upon it,
+salutes her, she singing:
+
+    "Welcome, John Sanderson," &c.
+
+Then, he taking up the cushion, they take hands, and dance round,
+singing as before: and this they do till the whole company is taken into
+the ring. Then the cushion is laid down before the first man, the woman
+singing, "This dance," &c. (as before), only instead of "Come to," they
+sing "Go fro," and instead of "Welcome, John Sanderson," &c., they sing,
+"Farewell, John Sanderson, farewell," &c.: and so they go out, one by
+one, as they came in. This dance was at one time highly popular, both at
+court and in the cottage, in the latter of which, in some remote country
+villages, it is still danced. Selden, in his _Table Talk_, thus refers
+to it:
+
+    "The court of England is much altered. At a solemn dancing, first
+    you have the grave measures, then the _Corvantoes_ and the
+    _Galliards_, and this is kept up with ceremony, at length to
+    Trenchmore and the Cushion dance; and then all the company dance,
+    lord and groom, lady and kitchen-maid, no distinction. (Would our
+    fair Belgravians of 1850 condescend to dance with their
+    kitchen-maids?) So in our court in Queen Elizabeth's time, gravity
+    and state were kept up. In King James's time, things were pretty
+    well. But in King Charles's time there has been nothing but
+    Trenchmore and the Cushion dance," &c.
+
+I shall also feel obliged for the date of _Bab at the Bowster_, or _Bab
+in the Bowster_, as it is called in Scotland. Jamieson, in his
+_Dictionary_, describes it as a very old Scottish dance, and generally
+the last danced at weddings and merry-makings. It is now danced with a
+handkerchief in place of a cushion; and no words are used. That a rhyme
+was formerly used, there is little doubt. Query, What were the words of
+this rhyme?
+
+MAC.
+
+Charminster.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DID BUNYAN KNOW HOBBES?
+
+I observe a querist wishes to know the artist of the portrait of Bunyan
+prefixed to his works. I can only myself conjecture Cooper, the
+miniature painter, but I am also curious about the great author of _The
+Pilgrim's Progress_.
+
+First, is Bunyan really the author of "Heart's Ease in Heart's Trouble,"
+and the "Visions of Heaven and Hell," published in his works, and
+perhaps, excepting "Grace Abounding," the most popular of his received
+miscellanies? I think not. My reasons are these. The style is very
+different, and much poorer than his best works. In the "Progress," when
+he quotes Latin, he modestly puts a side-note [The Latin that _I
+borrow_]. In the two tracts mentioned he flashes out a bit of Latin two
+or three times where he might have much better used English, or in a
+superfluous way. Also it is curious to know that in his "Visions of
+Hell" he meets Leviathan Hobbes, the philosopher of Malmesbury. The
+passage is curious, for if true, and written by Bunyan, it proves him to
+be personally acquainted with Hobbes. I extract it. After hearing his
+name called out, Epenetus (the author and visitant of the infernal
+regions) naturally inquires who it is that calls him. He is answered,--
+
+    "I was once well acquainted with you on earth, and had almost
+    persuaded you to be of my opinion. I am the author of that
+    celebrated book, so well known by the title of _Leviathan_!
+
+    "'What! the great Hobbes,' said I, 'are you come hither? _Your voice
+    is so much changed, I did not know it._'"
+
+The dialogue which ensues is not worth quoting, as it is from our
+purpose. But I would ask when was the time when Bunyan "was nearly
+persuaded to be of Hobbes' opinion?" If he is the author and speaks the
+truth (and he is notoriously truthful), it must have been in early
+youth; but surely the philosopher of Malmesbury could not know an
+obscure tinker. Bunyan cannot speak metaphorically, for he had not read
+the _Leviathan_, since he mentions that his only reading in early life,
+_i.e._ when he was likely to have embraced freethinking, was the
+_Practice of Piety_, and the _Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven_, his wife's
+dowry. {519} Moreover, he notes particularly the _change of voice_, a
+curious circumstance, which testifies personal acquaintance. Hobbes died
+in 1679; Bunyan in 1688. Were they intimate?
+
+JAS. H. FRISWELL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Boiling to Death._--Some of your correspondents have communicated
+instances where burning to death was inflicted as a punishment; and
+MR. GATTY suggests that it would prove an interesting subject
+for inquiry, at what period such barbarous inflictions ceased. In Howe's
+_Chronicle_ I find the two following notices:
+
+    "The 5th of Aprill (1532) one Richard Rose, a cooke, was boiled in
+    Smithfielde, for poisoning of divers persons, to the number of
+    sixteen or more, at ye Bishop of Rochester's place, amongst the
+    which Benet Curwine, gentleman, was one, and hee intended to have
+    poisoned the bishop himselfe, but hee eate no potage that day,
+    whereby hee escaped. Marie the poore people that eate of them, many
+    of them died."--Howe's _Chronicle_, p. 559.
+
+    "The 17th March (1542) Margaret Dany, a maid, was boiled in
+    Smithfield for poisoning of three households that shee had dwelled
+    in."--Howe's _Chronicle_, p. 583.
+
+Query, was this punishment peculiar to cooks guilty of poisoning? And
+when did the latest instance occur?
+
+L.H.K.
+
+
+_Meaning of "Mocker."_--To-day I went into the cottage of an old man, in
+the village of which I am curate, and finding him about to cut up some
+wood, and he being very infirm, I undertook the task for him, and
+chopped up a fagot for his fire.
+
+During the progress of my work, the old fellow made the following
+observation:--
+
+    "Old Nannie Hawkins have got a big stick o' wood, and she says as I
+    shall have him for eight pence. If I could get him, I'd soon
+    _mocker_ him."
+
+Upon my asking him the meaning of the word _mocker_, he informed me it
+meant to _divide_ or _cleave in pieces;_ but, not being "a scholar" as
+he termed it, he could not tell me how to spell it, so I know not
+whether the orthography I have adopted is correct or not.
+
+Can any of your readers give me a clue to the derivation of this word? I
+certainly never heard it before.
+
+I ought perhaps to state, that this is a country parish in
+Herefordshire.
+
+W.M.
+
+Pembridge, Dec. 16.
+
+
+_"Away, let nought to love displeasing"._--Is it known who was the
+author of the song to be found in Percy's _Reliques_, and many other
+collections, beginning--
+
+    "Away, let nought to love displeasing."
+
+The first collection, so far as I know, in which it appears is entitled
+_Miscellaneous Poems by several Hands_, published by D. Lewis, London,
+1726; and in this work it is called a translation from the ancient
+British. Does this mean a translation of an ancient poem, or a
+translation of a poem written in some extant dialect of the language
+anciently spoken in Britain? Either would appear to me incredible.
+
+As I feel much interested in the poetry of English songs, can you or any
+of your correspondents inform me if there exists any _good_ collection;
+that is, a collection, of such only as are excellent of their respective
+kinds? That the English language possesses materials for forming such a
+collection, and an extensive one too, I have no doubt, though I have
+never met with one. And, if there be none that answers the description I
+give, I should be glad of information respecting the best that exist.
+
+It is scarcely necessary to add, that my standard of excellence would
+admit only those which bore the character of "immortal verse," rejecting
+such as had been saved merely by the music to which they had been
+"married."
+
+SAMUEL HICKSON.
+
+Dec. 14. 1850.
+
+
+_Baron Muenchausen._--Who was the author of this renowned hero's
+adventures? The _Conversations-Lexicon_ (art. _Muenchausen_) states that
+the stories are to be found under the title of "Mendacia Ridicula," in
+vol. iii. of _Deliciae Academicae_, by J.P. Lange (Heilbronn, 1665); and
+that "at a later period they appeared in England, where a reviewer
+supposed them to be a satire on the ministry." I remember to have read
+when a boy (I think in _The Percy Anecdotes_), that the book was written
+by an Englishman who was styled "M----," and was described as having
+been long a prisoner in the Bastille.
+
+Since writing thus far I have seen the note by J.S. (Vol. ii., pp.
+262-3.) on Muenchausen's story of the horn. The idea of sounds frozen in
+the air, and thawed by returning warmth, was no invention of "Castilian,
+in his _Aulicus_" (_i.e._ Castiglione, author of _Il Cortegiano_); for,
+besides that, it is found in his contemporary Rabelais (liv. iv. cc.
+55-6), I believe it may be traced to one of the later Greek writers,
+from whom Bishop Taylor, in one of his sermons, borrows it as an
+illustration.
+
+J.C.R.
+
+
+_"Sing Tantararara Rogues all," &c._--The above is the chorus of many
+satirical songs written to expose the malpractices of peculators, &c.
+Can any of your readers point out who was the author of the _original
+song_, and where it is to be found?
+
+A SUBSCRIBER.
+
+
+_Meaning of "Cauking."_--An old dame told me the other day, in Cheshire,
+that her servant was a {520} good one, and among other good qualities
+"she never went _cauking_ into the neighbours' houses." Unde derivatur
+"cauking?"
+
+CHAS. PASLAM.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+REPLIES.
+
+THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.
+
+(Vol. ii., p. 476.)
+
+The proverb, "As wise as the men of Gotham." is given in Fuller's
+_Worthies_ (ed. 1662, pp. 315, 316.). Ray, in his note upon this,
+observes
+
+    "It passeth for the _Periphrasis_ of a fool, and an hundred
+    fopperies are feigned and fathered on the townsfolk of _Gotham_, a
+    village in this county [Nottinghamshire]. Here two things may be
+    observed:
+
+    "1. Men in all ages have made themselves merry with singling out
+    some place, and fixing the staple of stupidity and solidity therein.
+    So the _Phrygians_ in _Asia_, the _Abderitae_ in _Thrace_, and
+    _Boeotians_ in _Greece_, were notorious for dulmen and blockheads.
+
+    "2. These places thus slighted and scoffed at, afforded some as
+    witty and wise persons as the world produced. So _Democritus_ was an
+    _Abderite_, _Plutarch_ a _Boeotian_, &c.
+
+    "As for _Gotham_, it doth breed as wise people as any which
+    causelessly laugh at their simplicity. Sure I am _Mr. William de
+    Gotham_, fifth Master of _Michael House_ in _Cambridge_, 1336, and
+    twice Chancellor of the University, was as grave a governor as that
+    age did afford."--3d. ed. p. 258.
+
+In Thoroton's _Nottinghamshire_, vol. i. pp. 42, 43., the origin of the
+saying, as handed down by tradition, is thus given:--King John intending
+to pass through this place towards Nottingham, was prevented by the
+inhabitants, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed
+was for ever after to become a public road. The king, incensed at their
+proceedings, sent from his court, soon afterwards, some of his servants
+to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment,
+that he might punish them. The villagers hearing of the approach of the
+king's servants, thought of an expedient to turn away his majesty's
+displeasure from them. When the messengers arrived at Gotham, they found
+some of the inhabitants engaged in endeavouring to drown an eel in a
+pool of water; some were employed in dragging carts upon a large barn,
+to shade the wood from the sun; and others were engaged in hedging a
+cuckoo, which had perched itself upon an old bush. In short, they were
+all employed upon some foolish way or other, which convinced the king's
+servants that it was a village of fools.
+
+Should J.R.M. not yet have seen it, I beg to refer him to Mr.
+Halliwell's interesting edition of _The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of
+Gotham_ (Lond. 1840) for fuller and further particulars.
+
+J.B. COLMAN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies To Minor Queries.
+
+_Master John Shorne_.--As neither MR. THOMS' Notes (Vol. ii.,
+p. 387.) nor MR. WAY'S (p. 450.) mention where this reputed
+saint lived, or speak of him as connected with Buckinghamshire, I will
+offer an extract from Lysons in the hope of casting some little light on
+the subject.
+
+    "North Marston.--The church is a handsome Gothic structure; there is
+    a tradition that the chancel was built with the offerings at the
+    shrine of Sir John Shorne, a very devout man, of great veneration
+    with the people, who was rector of North Marston about the year
+    1290, and it is said that the place became populous and flourishing
+    in consequence of the great resort of persons to a well which he had
+    blessed. This story stands upon a better foundation than most vulgar
+    traditions; the great tithes of North Marston are still appropriated
+    to the dean and canons of Windsor, who, before the Reformation,
+    might without difficulty have rebuilt the chancel, as it is very
+    probable they did, with the offerings at the shrine of Sir John
+    Shorne, for we are told that they were so productive, that on an
+    average they amounted to 500l. per annum.[1] Sir John Shorne,
+    therefore, although his name is not to be found, appears to have
+    been a saint of no small reputation. The common people in the
+    neighbourhood still keep up his memory by many traditional stories.
+    Browne Willis, says, that in his time there were people who
+    remembered a direction-post standing, which pointed the way to Sir
+    John Shorne's shrine."[2]
+
+North Marston, formerly Merston, is about four miles from Winslow. I
+visited it about a year ago, and drank of the well, or spring, which is
+about a quarter of a mile from the village; but I know nothing of the
+traditions alluded to by Lysons. The chancel of the church is a fine
+specimen of perpendicular style, with a vestry of the same date, and of
+two stories, with a fireplace in each. I do not find North Marston, in
+Bucks, mentioned in Leland, Camden, or Defoe, nor can I meet with any
+account of Sir John Shorne in any books of English saints within my
+reach. A copy of Browne Willis's MSS. may be seen in the British Museum.
+
+W.H.K.
+
+[Footnote 1: _History of Windsor_, p. 111.]
+
+[Footnote 2: B. Willis's MSS., Bodleian Library.]
+
+
+For the information of those who may not have the _Norfolk Archaeology_
+to refer to, let me add that John Shorne appears to have been rector of
+North Marston, in Buckinghamshire, about the year 1290, "and was held in
+great veneration for his virtues, which his benediction had imparted to
+a holy well in his parish, and for his miracles, one of which, _the feat
+of conjuring the devil into a boot_, was considered so remarkable that
+it was represented in the east window of his church."
+
+E.S.T.
+
+
+_Antiquity of Smoking._--The passage is in Herodian. In the time of
+Commodus there was a {521} pestilence in Italy. The emperor went to
+Laurentum for the benefit of the smell of the laurel trees.
+
+    "In ipsa quoque urbe de medicorum sententia plerique unguentis
+    suavissimus nares atque aures opplebant, suffituque[3] et
+    odoramentis assidua utebantur, quod meatus sensuum (ut quidem
+    dicunt) odoribus illis occupati, neque admittant aera tabificum: et
+    si maxime admiserint, tamen eum majore quasi vi longe superari."
+
+This has nothing to do with the practice of smoking, nor is it clear
+that they smoked these things with a pipe into the mouth at all. The
+medical use of fumigation, as Sir William Temple observes, was greatly
+esteemed among the ancients. But it is very probable that, being
+sometimes practised by means of pipes, it was what led to the practice
+of smoking constantly, either for general medical protection, or merely
+for luxury, in countries and times too, when these epidemics from bad
+air were very common. The great love of smoking among the Turks may be
+originally owing to the plague.
+
+C.B.
+
+[Footnote 3: [Greek: "thumiamasi te kai aromasi sunechos echronto."]]
+
+
+_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. ii., pp. 41. 216. 465.).--Mr. Lane, in his
+edition of the _Arabian Nights_, infers the very late date of that book
+from there being no mention of tobacco or coffee in it.
+
+As two of the ancient authorities have broken down, it occurred to me
+that others might.
+
+The reference to Strabo, vii. 296. leads me only to this; that the
+Mysians were called [Greek: kapnobatai] (some correct to [Greek:
+kapnopatai]) because they did not eat animals, but milk, cheese, and
+honey; but of religion, living quietly.
+
+One cannot imagine that this can be meant. I referred to Almaloveen's
+edition, the old paging.
+
+In the next page he repeats the epithet, coupling it, as before, with
+the word religious, and arguing from both as having the same meaning.
+
+It occurred to me that somebody might have read [Greek: kapnopotai],
+"fumum bibentes," which might have given occasion to the reference to
+this passage: and I find in the English Passow that [Greek: kapnobotai],
+"smoke-eaters," has been proposed.
+
+[Greek: Kapnopatai], is there derived from [Greek: paomai].
+
+But if these are the readings, they can have nothing to do with smoking,
+but with religion. From the context they would mean as we say, "living
+on air;" like Democritus, who subsisted three days upon the steam of new
+loaves.
+
+[Greek: Kapnobatai] meant, as I believe, to describe their religiousness
+more directly; treading on the clouds, living _in_ the air: like
+Socrates in Aristophanes, [Greek: Neph]. 225.:
+
+    [Greek: "Aerobato kai periphrono ton helion,"]
+
+And in v. 330. [Greek: kapnos] is used of the clouds:
+
+    [Greek: "Ma Di all homichlen kai droson autas hegoumen kai kapnon
+    einai."]
+
+There is nothing in Solinus, cap. 15.; and Mela, lib. ii., is too wide a
+reference.
+
+C.B.
+
+
+_Meaning of the Word "Thwaites"_(Vol. ii., p. 441.).--The word "Thwayte"
+occurred in the ancient form of the Bidding Prayer: "Ye shalle byddee
+for tham, that this cherche honour with book, with bell, with
+vestiments, with _Thwayte_," &c. This form is said to be above four
+hundred years old; and Palmer says (_Orig. Lit._, iii. p. 60.) that we
+have memorials of these prayers used in England in the fourteenth
+century. Hearne remarks that the explication of this word warranted by
+Sir E. Coke is "a wood grubbed up and turned to arable." This land being
+given to any church, the donors were thus commended by the prayers of
+the congregation.
+
+In Yorkshire the word is so understood: Thwaite, or "stubbed ground,
+ground that has been essarted or cleaned."
+
+J.H.M.
+
+
+_Meaning of "Thwaites"_ (Vol. ii., p. 441.).--Hearne took the word
+"Thwayte" to signify "a wood grubbed up and turned into arable." His
+explanation, with other suggestions as to the meaning, of this word, may
+be found in a letter from Hearne to Mr. Francis Cherry, printed in vol.
+i. p. 194. of _Letters written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and
+Eighteenth Centuries_, published by Longman and Co. in 1813.
+
+J.P. JR.
+
+December 5. 1850.
+
+
+_Thomas Rogers of Horninger_ (Vol. ii., p. 424.).--Your correspondent
+S.G. will find a brief notice of this person in Rose's _Biographical
+Dictionary_, London, 1848. It appears he was rector of Horninger, and a
+friend of Camden; who prefixed some commendatory verses to a work of
+his, entitled _The Anatomy of the Mind_. I would suggest to S.G. that
+further information may probably be collected respecting him from these
+verses, and from the prefaces, &c. of his other works, of which a long
+list is given in Rose's _Dictionary_.
+
+T.H. KERSLEY, A.B.
+
+King William's Col., Isle of Man.
+
+
+_Thomas Rogers of Horninger_ (Vol. ii., p 424.).--If S.G. will apply to
+the Rev. J. Perowne, of his own college, who is understood to be
+preparing an edition of Rogers's work for the Parker Society, he will
+doubtless obtain the fullest information.
+
+A.H.
+
+
+_Earl of Roscommon_ (Vol. ii., p. 468.).--A pretended copy of the
+inscription at Kilkenny West, mentioned by your correspondent AN
+HIBERNIAN, was produced in evidence, on the claim of Stephen
+Francis Dillon to the earldom of Roscommon, before the House of Lords.
+As there was reason to doubt the evidence of the person who produced
+that copy, or the genuineness of the inscription itself, the House
+decided against that claim; and by admitting that of the late earl
+(descended {522} from the youngest son of the first earl) assumed
+the extinction of all the issue of the six elder sons. The
+evidence adduced altogether negatived the presumption of any such
+issue. Your correspondents FRANCIS and AN HIBERNIAN will find a
+very clear and succinct account of the late earl's claim, and Stephen
+Francis Dillon's counter-claim, in _The Roscommon Claim of Peerage_, by
+J. Sidney Tayler, Lond. 1829.
+
+W.H.C.
+
+
+_Parse_ (Vol. ii., p. 430.).--Your correspondent J.W.H. is far from
+correct in supposing that this word was not known in 1611, for he will
+find it used by Roger Ascham, in a passage quoted by Richardson in his
+_Dictionary_ sub voce.
+
+In Brinsley's curious _Ludus Literarius_, 1612, reprinted 1627, 4to.,
+the word is frequently used. At page 69. he recommends the "continual
+practice of _parsing_." At p. 319., enumerating the contents of chap.
+vi., we have "The Questions of the Accidence, called the _Poasing_ of
+the English Parts;" and chap. ix. is "Of _Parsing_ and the kinds
+thereof, &c."
+
+At the end of a kind of introduction there is an "Advertisement by the
+Printer," intimating that the author's book, "The _Poasing_ of the
+Accidence," is likely to come forth. From all this, it seems as if the
+two words were used indifferently.
+
+F.R.A.
+
+
+_The Meaning of "Version"_ (Vol. ii., p. 466.).--T. appears to apply a
+peculiar meaning of his own to the word "version," which it would have
+been quite as well if he had explained in a glossarial note.
+
+He thinks A.E.B. was _mistaken_ in using that phrase in reference to
+Lord Bacon's translation into Latin of his own English original work,
+and he proceeds to compare (to what end does not very clearly appear) a
+sentence from Lord Bacon's English text, with the same sentence as
+re-translated back again from Lord Bacon's Latin by Wats. Finally, T.
+concludes with this very singular remark: "Wats' version is the more
+exact of the two!"
+
+Does T. mean to call Lord Bacon's English text a _version_ of his Latin,
+by anticipation of eighteen years?
+
+The only other authority for such meaning of the word would seem to be
+the facetious Dr. Prout, who accused Tom Moore of a similar _version_ of
+his celebrated papers.
+
+A.E.B.
+
+
+_First Paper-mill in England_ (Vol. ii., p. 473).--The birthplace of the
+"High Germaine Spilman" (_Spielmann_), celebrated by Churchyard, your
+English readers may not easily discover by his description as quoted by
+DR. RIMBAULT.
+
+"Lyndoam Bodenze" is _Lindau am Boden-see_, on the Lake of Constance (in
+German, _Bodensee_), once a free imperial city, called, from its site on
+three islets in the lake, "the Swabian Venice," now a pretty little town
+belonging to the kingdom of _Bavaria_.
+
+V.
+
+
+"_Torn by Horses_" (Vol. ii., p. 480.).--This cruel death was suffered
+by _Ravaillac_, who accomplished what Jean Chatel failed in doing.
+
+The execution took place on the 27th of May, 1610, with the most
+atrocious severities of torture, of which the drawing by horses was but
+the last out of a scene that continued for many hours. The day before he
+had been racked to the very extremity of human suffering. The horses
+dragged at the wretch's body for an hour in vain; at length a nobleman
+present sent one of his own, which was stronger; but this even would not
+suffice. The executioner had to sever the mangled body with his knife,
+before the limbs would give way. I could add more of these details, but
+the subject is intolerable.
+
+The execution of _Ravaillac_ was followed with the utmost exactness, but
+with more cruelty, if possible, in the case of _Damiens_ (sentenced for
+the attempt on Louis le Bien-Aime), who suffered on the Place de Greve,
+March 28. 1757. The frightful business lasted from morning till dusk!
+Here again the knife was used before the body gave way, the horses
+having dragged at it for more than an hour first; the poor wretch
+living, it is said, all the while!
+
+I believe this was the last instance of the punishment in France, if not
+in Europe.
+
+A concise summary of the trials of these men, and all the hideous
+details of their tortures and execution, will be found, by those who
+have a taste for such things, in the third volume of the new series of
+the _Neuer Pitaval_, edited by Hitzig and Haring (Leipzig,
+Brockhaus),--a collection of _causes celebres_ which has been in course
+of publication at intervals since 1842. The volume in question appeared
+in the present year (1850).
+
+V.
+
+Belgravia.
+
+
+_Vineyards_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--At Ingatestone Hall, in Essex, one of
+the seats of Lord Petre, a part of the ground on the south side of the
+house still goes by the name of "the Vineyard." And this autumn grapes
+came to great perfection on the south wall.
+
+J.A.D.
+
+
+_Cardinal_ (Vol. ii., p. 424.).--The expression referred to by O.P.Q.
+was in some degree illustrated at the coronation of Edward II., 1308,
+when the Pope, wishing the ceremony to be performed by a cardinal, whom
+he offered to send for the purpose, was strenuously opposed by the king,
+and compelled to withdraw his pretensions. (See Curtis's _History of
+England_, vol. ii. p. 309.)
+
+C.H.
+
+St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge.
+
+
+_Weights for weighing Coins_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--If the question of
+your correspondent, who wishes to know at what period weights were
+introduced {523} for weighing coins, is intended to have a general
+reference, he will find many passages alluding to the practice amongst
+the ancient Romans, who manufactured balances of various kinds for that
+purpose: one for gold (_statera auraria_, Varro _Ap. Non._, p. 455., ed.
+Mercer.; Cic. _Or._ ii. 38.); another for silver (Varro _De Vit. P.R._
+lib. ii.); and another for small pieces of money (_trutina momentana
+pro parva modicaque pecunia._ Isidor. _Orig._, xvi. 25. 4.). The mint
+is represented on the reverse of numerous imperial coins and medals
+by three female figures, each of whom holds a pair of scales, one for
+each of the three metals; and in Rich's _Illustrated Companion to the
+Latin Dictionary_, under the word LIBRA, there is exhibited a balance
+of very peculiar construction, from an original in the cabinet of the
+Grand Duke at Florence, which has a scale at one end of the beam, and
+a fixed weight at the opposite extremity, "to test the just weight of
+a given quantity, and supposed to have been employed at the mint for
+estimating the proper weight of coinage."
+
+MONETA.
+
+
+_Umbrellas_ (Vol. i., p. 414. etc.).--To the extensive exhibition of
+_umbrellas_ formed through the exertions of the right worthy editor of
+the "NOTES AND QUERIES" and his very numerous friends, I am happy to
+have it in my power to make an addition of considerable curiosity, it
+being of much earlier date than any specimen at present in the
+collection:--
+
+    "Of doues I haue a dainty paire
+     Which, when you please to take the aier,
+     About your head shall gently houer,
+     Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,
+     And with their nimble wings shall fan you
+     That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,
+     And, like _vmbrellas_, with their feathers
+     _Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers._"
+                                _Michael Drayton, 1630_.
+
+Had not the exhibition been limited to umbrellas used in England, I
+could have produced oriental specimens, very like those now in fashion
+here, of the latter part of the sixteenth century.
+
+BOLTON CORNEY.
+
+
+_Croziers and Pastoral Staves_ (Vol. ii., p. 412.).--The staff with the
+cross appears on the monument of Abp. Warham, in Canterbury Cathedral;
+on the brass of Abp. Waldeby (1397), in Westminster Abbey and on that of
+Abp. Cranley (1417), in New College Chapel, Oxford.
+
+The crook is bent _outwards_ in the brasses to the following
+bishops:--Bp. Trellick (1360), Hereford Cathedral; Bp. Stanley (1515),
+Manchester Cathedral; Bp. Goodrich (1554), Ely Cathedral; and Bp.
+Pursglove (1579), Tideswell Church, Derbyshire.
+
+J.I.D.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Miscellaneous.
+
+NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
+
+We never longed so much for greater space for our Notes upon Books as we
+do at this season of gifts and good will, when the Christmas Books
+demand our notice.
+
+Never did writer pen a sweeter tale than that which the author of _Mary
+Barton_ has just produced under the title of _The Moorland Cottage_. It
+is a purely English story, true to nature as a daguerreotype, without
+one touch of exaggeration, without the smallest striving after effect,
+yet so skilfully is it told, so effectually does it tell, so strongly do
+Maggie's trials and single-mindedness excite our sympathies, that it
+were hard to decide whether our tears are disposed to flow the more
+readily at those trials, or at her quiet heroic perseverance in doing
+right by which they are eventually surmounted. _The Moorland Cottage_
+with its skilful and characteristic woodcut illustrations by Birket
+Foster, will be a favourite for many and many a Christmas yet to come.
+
+Rich in all the bibliopolic "pearl and gold" of a quaint and fanciful
+binding, glancing with holly berries and mistletoe, Mr. Bogue presents
+us with a volume as interesting as it is characteristic and elegant,
+_Christmas with the Poets_. A more elegantly printed book was never
+produced; and it is illustrated with fifty engravings designed and drawn
+on wood by Birket Foster; engraved by Henry Vizetelly, and printed in
+tints in a way to render most effective the artist's tasteful,
+characteristic, and very able drawings. The volume is, as it were, a
+casket, in which are enshrined all the gems which could be dug out of
+the rich mines of English poetry; and when we say that the first
+division treats of Carols from the Anglo-Norman period to the time of
+the Reformation; that these are followed by Christmas Poems of the
+Elizabethan period, by Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, and their great
+cotemporaries; that to these succeed Herrick's Poems, and so on, till we
+have the Christmas verses of our own century, by Southey, Wordsworth,
+Scott, Shelley, Tennyson, &c., we have done more than all our praise
+could do, to prove that a fitter present to one who loves poetry could
+not be found than _Christmas with the Poets_.
+
+While if it be a _little_ lover of poetry--mind, not one who little
+loves poetry, but one who listens with delight to those beloved ditties
+of the olden times, which as we know charmed Shakspeare's
+childhood,--learn that an English lady, with the hand and taste of an
+artist, guided and refined by that purest and holiest of feelings, a
+mother's love, has illustrated those dear old songs in a way to delight
+all children; and at the same time charm the most refined. The
+_Illustrated Ditties of the Olden Time_ is in sooth a delightful volume,
+and if a love of the beautiful be as closely connected with a love of
+the moral as wise heads tell us, we know no more agreeable way of early
+inculcating morality than by circulating this splendid edition of our
+time-honoured Nursery Rhymes.
+
+But we fancy the taste of some of our readers may not yet have been hit
+upon. Let them try _The Story of Jack and the Giants, illustrated by
+Richard Doyle_; and {524} they will find this wondrous story rendered
+still more attractive by some thirty drawings, from the pencil of one
+of the most imaginative artists of the day, and whose artistic spirit
+seems to have revelled with delight as he pourtrayed the heroic
+achievements of "the valiant Cornish man."
+
+We will now turn to those works which are of a somewhat graver class;
+and we will begin with Miss Drury's able and well-written story,
+entitled _Eastbury_, in which the heavy trials of Beatrice Eustace,
+mitigated and eventually overcome through the friendship and
+truthfulness of Julia Seymour, are told in a manner to delight all
+readers of the class of tales to which _Eastbury_ belongs; and to
+sustain the reputation as a writer, which Miss Drury so deservedly
+acquired by her former story, _Friends and Fortune_.
+
+The name of the Rev. Charles B. Tayler would alone have served as a
+sufficient warrant that _The Angel's Song, a Christmas Token_, is work
+of still more serious character, even though the author had not told his
+readers, in his _Envoy_, that the tale was written to correct the
+mistake into which many well-meaning people have fallen on the subject
+of Christmas merriment; and to suggest the spirit in which this sacred
+season should be celebrated. That the book will be favourably received
+by the large class of readers to whom it is addressed, there can be
+little doubt; and to their attention we accordingly commend it. It is
+very tastefully got up.
+
+To the publisher of _The Angel's Song_, Mr. Sampson Low, we are also
+indebted for a very stirring and interesting book, _The Whaleman's
+Adventures in the Southern Ocean_, edited by the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, from
+the notes of a pious and observant American clergyman, whilst embarked,
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+Pacific Ocean. That Dr. Scoresby should think the matter of this work so
+far novel and interesting, as well as "calculated for conveying useful
+moral impressions," renders it scarcely necessary to say another word in
+its recommendation. But it has a higher object than mere amusement; its
+object is to enforce upon those "who go down to the sea in ships," the
+duty of "remembering the Sabbath Day to keep it holy."
+
+Here our editorial labours have been interrupted by a band of infant
+critics to whose unprejudiced judgments we had entrusted _Peter Little
+and the Lucky Sixpence_,--each begging to be allowed to keep the book.
+Good reader, do you wish for better criticism? Worthy author of this
+_Verse Book for Children_, do you wish for higher praise?
+
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+Bernard Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No.
+22. of English, French, German, and Italian Books; John Lyte's (498. New
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