(3) The Phœnix Park is in Ireland: so called because of the Phoeneans having been there.
(4) The Phœnix Park scene of the assassination of Mr. Phœnix.
(5) The Phœnix Park is an insurance.
(6) The Coliseum of Rhodes is the form of a great elephant one of the seven wonders of the world.
Then he asked the candidates, the great majority of whom were girls, about dogs, their appearance, and their special uses. One girl said that “the fox terrier runs sideways,” but she did not explain. Another described the “St. Bernard dog renowned for saving snow-hidden wanderers in the Torrid regions.” A third chose “the scavanger dog, a very ungamely dog. It belogs to the Eastern countries all refuse is put out at night and clears it away before morning.”
Lastly, as far as we are concerned, he asked the meaning of the following expressions: “The Green-Eyed Monster,” “the sere and yellow leaf,” “the Thin Red Line,” &c., &c.
The Green Eyed Monster was defined as “indigestion”: according to another it “refers to a whale”: according to a skittish one, “sometimes the headmaster or headmistress of a school appears to be a green-eyed monster in the eyes of her pupils and also teachers sometimes.”
The sere and yellow leaf was “a certain kind of tobacco.”
The thin red line was “The charge at Baraklava headed by Sir Colin Campbell during the Indian Mutiny.”
It was, I think, in another paper, that these quaint views appeared: