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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 154. 



"Jurat capillos esse, quod emit, suos 

 Fabulla: numquid ilia, Paulle, pejerat? " 



*' Fan wears her own fair tresses ! Who denies 

 She may call them her own, who fairly buys ? " 



" Non coenat sine apro noster, Tite, Cascilianus. 

 Bellum convivam Cascilianus habet." 



•' Never to sup without boar's head, a noble gourmand 

 swore; 

 * Quite right, my lord, where'er you sup, we'll always 

 have a bore ! ' " 



" Dicis formosam, dicis te, Bassa, puellam. 

 Istud quod non est, dicere Bassa soles." 



" Bess calls herself ' a pretty girl and young ; ' 

 But hers we know is no truth-telling tongue," 



*' Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato nullo, 

 Pompeius parvo. Quis putet, esse Deos? 

 Saxapremunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, 

 Pompeium Tituli, Credimus esse Deos?" 



*' O'er base Licinus costliest marbles rise; 

 Unburied Cato, meanly Pompey, lies. 



Is there a God ? 

 His tomb Licinus damns to endless fame, 

 Cato's and Pompey's monument their name. 

 There is a God." 



*' Exigis, ut donem nostros tibi, Quinte, libellos 

 Non habeo, sed habet Bibliopola Tryphon. 

 ^s dabo pro nugis, et emam tua carmina sanus? 

 ' Non,' inquis, ' faciam tarn fatue :' nee ego." 



" You ask some copies of my poem : 



•John Murray' sells the book — you know him. 

 1^ You tell me you won't purchase trash : 

 Nor I, for triflers, part my cash." 



FOLK LORE. 



"Newspaper Folk Lore (Vol. vi., p. 221.). — I am 

 quite unable to give A Londonek an answer to 

 any of his questions concerning the reptile stated 

 to be swallowed by a little girl at Blaxton, but I 

 can inform him and all else whom it may concern, 

 that I have often seen stories of a similar kind in 

 provincial newspapers, which I have always thought 

 to be emanations from the brains of that highly 

 imaginative class of persons the Tillage corre- 

 spondents of the said newspapers. I enclose a 

 scrap which I cut from a newspaper about six 

 years ago ; it Is in some respects very similar to 

 the one given by your correspondent, and is, I 

 doubt not, equally true. 



"Danger of Drinliing Brook Water On the 7th inst., 



Joseph Bailey, a youth about sixteen years of age, son 

 of Henry Bailey, of Shadow Moss, in Northern 

 Etchells, vomited a living reptile, of the lizard tribe. 



the body of which was about seven inches long. It 

 was the consequence of drinking at a brook in a field, 

 in which he was at work as a plough-driver, in the 

 autumn of 1844, about eighteen months since. He 

 was aware at the time that, while hastily drinking, he 

 swallowed some object which made him sick, but had 

 no idea that it was anything like what it has ultimately 

 proved to be. From that time his health has gradually 

 retrograded, and he has been subject to fits of vomiting 

 almost constantly, and growing worse and worse. 

 About two months ago he became unable to follow his- 

 employment, and was compelled to quit service and 

 return home. He rapidly got worse ; upon which his 

 parents called in two surgeons of Wimslow. While 

 taking the prescribed medicines, he appeared daily to 

 get weaker, his sickness increasing, and at this time he 

 was scarcely able to walk across the room. Upon 

 being seized with a fit of vomiting, he threw up three 

 times successively a thick, glutinous matter, and at the- 

 fourth time of his straining the reptile made its ap- 

 pearance in his mouth, making a desperate attempt ta 

 return down the throat; but, applying his finger, he 

 laid hold of it and threw it on the floor, and it then 

 ran into the grid -hole. In the hurry of the moment 

 his sister so much crushed and mangled it that further 

 inspection was almost impossible. Since this he has 

 gradually recovered, and there appears no doubt of his 

 ultimate restoration to health." — Stockport Advertiser. 



K.P.D.E. 



The Venom of Toads. — It seems that toads are 

 about to have their old poetical attribute of being 

 " venomous " restored to them again by the efforts 

 of modern science. Their spit is poisonous, after 

 all. Would it not be worth while collecting a list 

 of ancient " vulgar errors " like this one, which 

 on more correct examination have proved to be 

 vulgar truths ? Berosus. 



" Sheets,'" a Kentish Word. — I enclose you a 

 cutting from a " Kentish " auctioneer's catalogue. 

 It describes property for sale in the "Hundred"' 

 of Hoo," a part of the county of Kent, invariably 

 styled " the Hundred " both by " Kentish men "^ 

 and "Men of Kent." Amongst the "live stock" 

 you win notice, twice repeated, "14 sheets." 

 Although I have had nearly forty years' experience 

 in country life, and am familiar with "farming 

 stock," both " live and dead," I have never before 

 met with the animal " sheet." After vainly re- 

 ferring to the Dictionaries and Glossaries on my 

 shelves, I sought information of " the men on the 

 premises," who are empowered (vide the said 



"■ Some recent articles in the Gentleman's Magazine, 

 and the Reports of the Congresses of the British 

 Archaeological Association held at Canterbury and 

 Worcester, assert that " this district was the corn- 

 growing state of the Trinobantes, ruled by Mandubra- 

 tius at the second invasion of Julius Cassar." 



