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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N« 4G., Nov. 15. '66. 



tureen (for holding salt-seasonings) was not called 

 by the same name. Henry T. Riley. 



Draught. — In Lincolnshire they lead their coals, 

 bricks, &c., or pay for the leading. In Leicester- 

 shire they draw them. In some of the southern 

 counties they carry them, and in others they cart 

 them. Are other terms used, and in what lo- 

 calities ? Anoh. 



Early Rising or Night Watching. — The indig- 

 nation of early risers has lately been aroused by 

 some remarks in Wilsons Essays, written doubt- 

 less in bad taste. Without intending to give the 

 slightest encouragement to indolence, idleness, or 

 dissipation, I venture to assert, that, provided the 

 same proportion of rest be taken, the hours are 

 immaterial. Early risers expatiate on the deli- 

 cious freshness of the morning air : but may we 

 not set against this the loveliness of departing day, 

 and the charms of moonlight ? Granting, how- 

 ever, the advantages of fine summer mornings, it 

 may be asked, in this climate where are they ? 

 Then, if rain and chilling winds prevent you 

 from — 



" Brushing with early strides the dew away," 



how annoying are the impurities of the domestic 

 atmosphere ! The smoke of newly lighted fires ! 

 Dust from rubbinw and scrubbing ! Damp from 

 washing and splashing ! What disturbing forces 

 too are in operation! — sweeping, shaking, brushing, 

 and banging among inverted furniture, and minor 

 moveables displaced and persecuted ! 



As to the alleged injurious effects of artificial 

 light, early risers, be it remembered, must have re- 

 course to it during a considerable portion of the 

 year. At any rate, the reflection that peculiarities 

 of constitution lead to different habits ought to 

 restrain all asperity in the discussion. 



Now for my Query : — Although Sir Walter 

 wrote his romances before breakfast, and the hero 

 of a modern novel rose early, as is boasted, cannot 

 numbers of eminent authors be mentioned who 

 produced their works by the light of the midnight 

 oil without smelling of it ? C. T. 



Fain Play. — When boys are playing, they use 

 these words, as indicative of a truce or temporary 

 cessation. It is worth inquiring what is the origin 

 of this word/azM. Has it anything to do with the 

 French word faineanter, "to do nothing?" Or 

 ought it more properly to be written /ez^.? 



Heney T. Riley. 



Spanish Proverbs. — Could any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me where to obtain a good work 

 on Spanish proverbs, somewhat similar to the one 

 in German by J. Eiselein ? When in Madrid, a 

 few months ago, I made every inquiry after a 

 work of the kind, but could only hear of a small 

 collection of about 200 pages, published by " D. 



Ignacio Boix, Calle de Carretas, No. 8." This I 

 bought; but it is so inadequate to my purpose, 

 that I should feel greatly obliged for the inform- 

 ation if a better one exists ; which surely must be 

 the case in a language so rich in proverbs as is 

 the Spanish. James Middlemokb. 



Griffin's Hill, Northfield. 



Elephants exasperated hy the Blood of Mul- 

 berries.— Br. Henry More (Fellow of Christ's 

 College, Cambridge,) in a work written by him 

 (under the pseudonyme of Philophilus Parrase- 

 astes), entitled Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656, 

 12mo.), says, in the preface to the reader : 



" These, I spread before him " (his opponent Mastix, 

 who was Vaughan, the author of Anthrosophia Theoma- 

 gica,) "like the bloud of Mulberries before Elephants in 

 battel to provoke his Irascible." 



Is there any foundation for the statement that 

 elephants were thus exasperated? and where is 

 contained any account of it ? Belphos. 



Queries on Shelley. — 



1 . What is the classical allusion in the following 

 lines ? 



" And mothers gazing, drank the love men see 

 Reflected in their race, behold, and perish." 



Prom, Unbound. 

 2, « And now from their fountains 



In Euna's mountains," &c. 



Arethusa. 

 What were the streams that rose in these moun- 

 tains which the Greeks identified with the Are- 

 thusa and the Alpheus ? And how could any 

 such streams " sleep beneath the Ortygian shore," 

 unless they are supposed to take a second sub- 

 marine journey ? C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



Leaning Towers and crooked Church Spires. — 

 Have we any leaning towers in England, at all in 

 the style of that wonder of the world at Pisa ? or 

 like the Garrisenda at Bologna, which is eight, or, 

 according to some, nine feet out of the perpen- 

 dicular ? We have had some very remarkable 

 examples of crooked spires, particularly that of 

 the church of St. Nicholas at Great Yarmouth, 

 which served as a landmark from sea ; and it was 

 observable of this steeple, that, from whatever way 

 it was viewed, it appeared awry. Some (query, 

 needless) apprehension of insecurity prompted its 

 being taken down and rebuilt, and thus a great 

 object of curiosity was annihilated, about the be- 

 ginning of the present century.* Query, how 

 was this obliquity occasioned, and how long had 

 it existed ? There also is, or was, a similar in- 

 stance of a crooked steeple at Chesterfield, Derby- 



* There is an excellent view of Great Yarmouth, with 

 the spire in its primary (or crooked) state, in Buck's 

 Perspective Views, London, 1774, vol. iii. plate 82. 



