BLACK'S THE WHITE OF MY EYE.
"There is a proverbial expression, 'You can't say black is the white of my eye.' How ought a person to vary the phrase to suit his own case, supposing his eyes to be blue? An answer will oblige.
J. P."
"Sir,
Digging in my garden, I found a flat stone with the following inscription—
JONBUMPSISGROUND
Can you inform me what language this is? I have submitted the question to both Universities, and a fortune-teller in the New Cut, but I can get no satisfactory reply. I am myself inclined to think it either Phœnician, Chaldee, or ancient Cornish."
"The following very curious fragment of an epitaph is to be found in a churchyard not a hundred miles from Biggleswade:—