Tho' true Presbyterians we'll drink to his name;
Long, long, may he live to teach prejudice awe,
And since Melville's got justice, the devil take law."
Again I repeat this conjecture may be erroneous; but that Sir Walter never sung any song at all at the meeting is, I think, beyond dispute.
J. M.
Minor Notes.
Sign of Rain.—Not far from Weobley, co. Hereford, is a high hill, on the top of which is a clump of trees called "Ladylift Clump," and thus named in the Ordnance map: it is a proverbial expression in the surrounding neighbourhood, that when this clump is obscured with clouds, wet weather soon follows, connected with which, many years since I met with the following lines, which may prove interesting to many of your readers:
"When Ladie Lift
Puts on her shift,