[152] Mainjo-i-Khard, 49, 22, ed. West.
[153] Op. cit., p. 98.
[154] Prim. Cult., i. 357.
[155] Lectures on Language, pp. 359, 362.
[156] Ideler (Untersuchungen ueber den Ursprung der Sternnamen) may also be consulted.
MOLY AND MANDRAGORA.
‘I have found out a new cure for rheumatism,’ said the lady beside whom it was my privilege to sit at dinner. ‘You carry a potato about in your pocket!’
Some one has written an amusing account of the behaviour of a man who is finishing a book. He takes his ideas everywhere with him and broods over them, even at dinner, in the pauses of conversation. But here was a lady who kindly contributed to my studies and offered me folklore and survivals in cultivated Kensington.