[28] A reader calls my attention to the fact that, when the hippopotamus is almost completely submerged, the pointed ears, prominent eyes, and large nostrils are grotesquely suggestive of a horse's head. This I have recently verified at the Zoo.
[29] For the rather illogical formation, cf. dogged from dog.
[30] Connection has even been suggested between haggis and Fr. agasse, "a pie, piannet, or magatapie" (Cotgrave). Haggis, now regarded as Scottish, was once a common word in English. Palsgrave has haggas, a podyng, "caliette (caillette) de mouton," i.e., sheep's stomach.
[32] To the same period belongs the colour magenta, from the victory of the French over the Austrians at Magenta in 1859.
[33] For lockram, see p. [48].
[34] Jehannette, "Jug, or Jinny" (Cotgrave). For strange perversions of baptismal names see [Chap. XII]. It is possible that the rather uncommon family name Juggins is of the same origin.
[35] "Marsil has a book brought forward: the law of Mahomet and Termagant was in it."