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[2o'i S. VIII. Sept. 10. '69. 



SiJtg si diderum (2"* S.viii. 171.) — I agree with 

 the answer to this Query, so far as concerns the 

 words being a coi'ruption of si dedei'o ; but it is 

 very improbable that when employed as a threat 

 by the common people to their children, it should 

 have any reference to a term of law. It appears 

 to me for more likely that they alluded to some- 

 thing sung at church, and more familiar to their 

 ears. In the psalm, " Memento Domine David," 

 the 131st, and in the Hebrew notation the 132nd, 

 the words occur in the 4th verse : " Si dedero 

 somnum oculis meis," etc. How these came to be 

 applied by angry mothers as a threat, I cannot 

 exphiin ; but I think this is the most probable 

 source from whence they were, taken. F. C. H. 



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The Cruise of the Pearl round the World, with an Ac- 

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The interest which must ever be attached to the im- 

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 by the Naval Brigade during the late unhappy mutiny 

 in our Indian empire, is sufficient to call attention to 

 this unpretending volume written by the chaplain of the 

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 of the manner in which the officers and seamen left their 

 ship, and taking their guns seven or eight hundred miles 

 into the interior of the country served as soldiers, 

 marching and countermarching for fifteen months through 

 extensive districts, took an active share in upwards of. 

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The Rose and the Lotus; or, Home in England and 

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India, it would .seem, has not yet lost its charm for 

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A Popular History of British Ferns and the Allied 

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Mr. Moore's Popular History of British Ferns has long 

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 of plants, which have of late years added so much grace 

 and beauty to many London homes, that we can scarcely 

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