OUR OWN "NOTES AND QUERIES."
PIKES AND ASSES.
Mr. Samuel Flopp presents his compliments to the Editor, and begs to propound the following question:—
Mr. Flopp, passing the other day through the Camden Town Turnpike, observed written upon the gate—
"For every horse, mule, or other animal, not being an ass, the sum of 1½d."
Mr. Flopp wishes to know whether it was owing to the last reservation, that he was allowed to pass toll free.
Perhaps some of our correspondents will answer the question.
BLACK'S THE WHITE OF MY EYE.
"There is a proverbial expression, 'You can't say black is the white of my eye.' How ought a person to vary the phrase to suit his own case, supposing his eyes to be blue? An answer will oblige.
J. P."
"Sir,
Digging in my garden, I found a flat stone with the following inscription—
JONBUMPSISGROUND
Can you inform me what language this is? I have submitted the question to both Universities, and a fortune-teller in the New Cut, but I can get no satisfactory reply. I am myself inclined to think it either Phœnician, Chaldee, or ancient Cornish."
"The following very curious fragment of an epitaph is to be found in a churchyard not a hundred miles from Biggleswade:—
'Afflictions sore, long time I bore,
Physicians was in vain—'
Cætera desunt. Can any of your readers inform me of the name and profession of the deceased, what he died of, and whether the undertaker was paid for his funeral?"
