As the old woman said when she kissed her cow—
Is not the picture striking,"
is the refrain of a song which was very popular some thirty or forty years since.
LLAW GYFFES. The motto of the extinct Viscounts Mount Cashel, "Sustenta la Drechura," is Spanish and signifies "Maintain the Right." The Davies Queries in an early number.
G. CREED. The Newcastle Apothecary, of whom George Colman records that he
"Loved verse and took so much delight in it,
That his directions he solved to write in it."
was, we believe, altogether an imaginary personage.
REPLIES RECEIVED.—Stonehenge—English Sapphics—St. Paul—Collar of Esses—On the Word "Rack"—Suicides burned in Cross Roads—Bensley Family—Curious Inscription—In Print—Epitaph—Thistle of Scotland—Saint and Crosier, &c.—Charles Lamb and William Hone—Coke how pronounced—Caxton Memorial—Shakspeare and Cervantes—Umbrella—East Norfolk folk Lore—Bells in Churches—The Ten Commandments—Whale of Jonah—The Tradescants—George Steevens—Sun stand thou still—Remarks upon some recent Queries.
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