[219] Daily Courant, February 2, 1711.
[220] “This is the Civet, as you may see; but enter. Perfumes sold here for men and women.”
[221] The reason why the hedgehog was generally represented with apples stuck on his quills, appears from the following words in Bossewell, (p. 61,)—“He clymeth upon a vine or an apple-tree and biteth off their braunches and twigges, and when they [the apples] be fallen downe, he waloweth on them, and so they sticke on his prickes, and he beareth them unto a hollow tree or some other hole.” The early naturalists also said that if, when he was so loaded, one of the apples happened to drop off, he would throw all the others down in anger and return to the tree for a new load.
[222] Harl. MSS. 353, fol. 145.
[223] London Gazette, No. 368.
[224] London Gazette, Sept. 18-21, 1682. I am confident the newspapers made a misprint, and that the man’s name was Haase, Dutch or German, for the Hare he represented on his sign.
[225] Hone’s Every-Day Book, Oct. 17, fol. 1.
[226] Rev. J. Richardson, LL.B., Recollections of the Last Half Century. See also under Stunning Joe Banks in the Slang Dictionary, recently issued by the publisher of this work.
[227] Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1842.
[228] [See] under [Religious Signs].