July 21. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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lary day (February 29), the Almanacs are not 

 alike. Indeed, strictly speaking, the Almanac for 

 1855 is not like that lor 1849, as they differ in the 

 Golden Number and the Epact. 



In 1849 the Golden Number is 7, the Epact 6, 

 the Sunday Letter G, Sundays after Epiph. 4, 

 Septuag. Sunday, Feb. 4 ; the First Day of .Lent, 

 Feb. 21. 



In 1855 the Golden Number is 13, the Epact 13, 

 the Sunday Letter G, Sundays after Epiph. 4, 

 Septuag. Sunday, Feb. 4 ; the First Day of Lent, 

 Feb. 21. 



In 1860 the Golden Number is 18, the Epact 7, 

 the Sunday Letter A G, Sundays after Epipb. 4, 

 Septuag. Sunday, Feb. 5 ; the First Day of Lent, 

 Feb. 22. F. B— w. 



Homer and Lord North (Vol. xii., p. 11.). — I 

 do not think that — 



" Ov xpy] travvv-f^iov evSeiv /3ovAi)<jidpoi' avSpa " 



goes beyond " It is not necessary that a states- 

 man should sleep all night ;" a proposition which 

 perhaps no one but Mr. Brotherfon will now dis- 

 pute. 



A passage corresponding to the second part of 

 the stanza is — 



" 'ApyaKiOu Si 

 'AvSpaffi KOI wKe6ve(r<n fiax'jVao-flat Trept Sairl," 



Horn. Odyss. ii. 244. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



JBennefs ^^ Paraphrase^ (Vol. xii., p. 10.). — The 

 custom alluded to is evidently that adopted in 

 some collegiate churches and chapels, where, 

 owing to the incapacity of the minor canons, the 

 lay clerks either assisted, or actually sung the 

 Litany : a custom, unfortunately, yet not univer- 

 sally obsolete. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



The author, as far as one can judge without the 

 rest of the passage, is referring to a practice which 

 still obtains in college chapels (at least at Cam- 

 bridge), where undergraduates, " very often young 

 boys of eighteen or nineteen years of age," are 

 " obliged " to read the Lessons, each in his turn. 



J. Eastwood. 



Eckington. 



Epigram on Laureateship (Vol. xi., pp. 263. 

 412.). — An older memory may still give farther 

 correctness to the epigram inserted as above. It 

 used to be repeated as follows : 



" Poetis nos laetamur tribus, 

 Petrus Pindar, Pye, Paul Pybus. 

 Sin ulterius ire perges, 

 Sume tunc Sir James Bland Surges." 



H. Walter. 



Alliterative Couplet on Cardinal Wolsey (Vol. 

 xii., p. 7.). — I remember these lines perfectly, 

 -having as a boy read them, I think, in the notes 

 ""Jfo. 299.] 



to Goldsmith's England. The edition I cannot 

 remember, but they ran properly thus : 



" Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred, : 



How high his honor holds his haughty head." 



Mackenzie Wai-cott, M.A. 



The lines on Wolsey, contained in the passage 

 cited by Me. C. Bede, are not accurately given, 

 nor rightly commented upon by the person who 

 styled himself A. Crowquill. 



Wolsey was not said to have been a butcher, 

 but only the son of a butcher, at Ipswich. The 

 lines should be as follows : 



" Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred ; 

 How high his honor holds his haughty head." 



H. Walter. 



The following alliterative exercise on the al- 

 phabet may be useful to Interrogator. My in- 

 formant cannot remember the name of the book 

 out of which, years ago, she learnt it. 



" Andrew Airpump asked his aunt her ailment. ^i 



Did Andrew, &c. i 



If Andrew, &c. 



Where is the, &c. 

 Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit. 



Did, &c. 

 Captain Crackskull cracked a catchpole's coxcomb, &c. 

 Davy Doldrum dreamt he drove a dragon. 

 Enoch Elkrig eat an empty eggshell. :^ 



Francis Fripple iiogged a Frenchman's filly. 

 Gaffer Gilpin got a goose and gander. 

 Humphrey Hunchback had a hundred hedgehogs. 

 Inigo Impey itched for an Indian image. 

 Jumping Jackey jeered a jesting juggler. 

 Kimbo Kemble kicked his kinsman's kettle. 

 Lanky Lawrence lost his lass and lobster. 

 Matthew Mendlegs missed a mangled monkey. 

 Neddy Noodle nipped his neighbour's nutmegs. 

 Oliver Oglethorpe ogled an owl and oyster. 

 Peter Piper picked a peck of pepper. 

 Quixote Quixite quizzed a queerish quidbox. 

 Rawdy Rumpus rode a rawboned racer. 

 Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of small coal. 

 Tiptoe Tommy turned a Turk for twopence. 

 Uncle Usher urged an ugly urchin. 

 Villiam Veedy viped his vig and vaistcoat. 

 Walter Waddle won a walking wager. 

 X Y Z have made mj- brains to crack O. 

 X smokes, Y snuffs, Z chews too strong tobacco. 

 Though oft by X Y Z much lore is taught, 

 Still Peter Piper beats them all to nought." 



D. 



Wark worth. 



Norman Superstition in 1855 (Vol. xi., p. 503.). 

 — Although I cannot answer the latter part of 

 Mr. Inglebt's Query, as to the antiquity of this 

 superstition, I may affirm that the supposed ma- 

 gical effects of the halter used by the suicide or 

 the hangman; have been, and are even now, as 

 prevalent in England as in Normandy. Brande 

 says : 



" I remember once to have seen at Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, after a person executed had been cut down, men 



