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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2n^s. v.iia, Apim.io.'r,8. 



dog, the spaniel of to-day, is called by Daniell the 

 Cocker. 



The Spanish pointer was early crossed with the 

 foxhound, to give him more speed and courage. 

 The highbred, fine-sterned dog of the present 

 day is the result of careful breeding. There are 

 two or three rooms in the Louvre filled with 

 sporting pictures by some French Landseer. The 

 pointers have their tails trimmed close, with a 

 tuft of hair left at the end. In my young days 

 at least a third of the heavy tail was cut off. 



The system of battues is fast superseding the 

 use of dogs, and the real sport of shooting, leaving 

 the modern sportsman only the slaughter. 



A. Holt White. 



Bath. 



Your correspondent A. A. will find some very 

 interesting observations on the pointer — his Span- 

 ish origin, and the acquired qualities transmitted 

 by parents to their offspring, &c., in the critique 

 on " Thoughts and Recollections " in The Edin- 

 burgh Review for August, 1825. (Vol. xlii. 457.) 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



Mould (2°^ S. V. 2,32.)— Will Mr. A. Holt 

 White pardon me if I suggest that Milton's line 

 wherein this word occurs has no allusion to mould 

 as earth — ^^ humus;'" but describes a dam, a 

 mound, " moles," a mole or embankment in fact. 

 No doubt the animal received its name from the 

 habit of casting up mounds or heaps. 



W. J. Bernhard Smith. 



Temple. 



Curtain Lecture (2"** S. iv. 24.) — Vox asks, 

 does an earlier example of this phrase occur than 

 in Stapylton's Juvenal, 1647 ? If the question be 

 not confined to the very term, but includes a 

 phrase of similar import, I would refer him to the 

 title of a scarce work, " Ar't asleepe, Husband ? " 

 *■'■ A Boulster Lecture" London, printed by R. 

 Bishop, for R.-B., or his assignes, 1640. 



My copy has the Curious frontispiece, under 

 which is " printed for R. Best," thus giving the 

 name of the person indicated by initials in the 

 title, and probably of the author. P. H. F. 



Stroud. 



People with Tails (2"'^ S. ill. 474,, v. 179.). — 

 Mr. Mackenzie Walcott will find this told of 

 St. Augustine, and also of Thomas a Becket in 

 Bailey's Dictionary, art. " Tails," and in Lam- 

 barde's Perambulation of Kent (iStroode), both of 

 which authors labour most pertinaciously to free 

 the Kentish men from the imputation of being 

 " Kentish Longtalls." There are many references 

 to the ancient use of this epithet in Halli well's 

 Dictionary, voce " Longtails." • E. G. R. 



Marriage Custom (2"^^ S. ill. 1G6.) — At Barnby- 

 dun, and also at Kirk Bramwith, Yorkshire, 

 within the memory of persons now living it was 



usual for the parish-clerk, immediately on the 

 publication of banns, to respond " God speed 'em 

 well." The late vicar of Barnby-dun, the Rev. 

 P. Watman, did away with the custom, as It fre- 

 quently excited some rather unseasonable mirth 

 among the younger portion of the congregation. 



J. S.(3.) 



Echo Poetry (2"'^ S. v. 234.) — The following 

 " Dialogue with Echo " may be acceptable to 

 Varlov ap Harry. It was copied eight or nine 

 years since from an old newspaper two feet square, 

 and dated, I think, about 1760 : — 



" If I address the Echo yonder, 

 What will its answer be I wonder? 



{Echo.') I wonder. 

 " 0, wondrous Echo, tell me, bicsse, 

 Am I for marriage or celibacy ? 



Silly Bes3}'. 

 " If then to win the maid I try, 

 Shall I iind her a property ? 



A proper tie. 

 " If neither being grave nor funny 

 Will win the maid to matrimony ? 



Try money. 

 " If I should try to gain her heart, 

 Shall I go plain, or rather smart ? 



Smart. 

 " She mayn't love dress, and I, again, then 

 May come too smart, and she'll complain then ? 



Come plain then. 

 " To please her most, perhaps 'tis best 

 To come as I'm in common dressed? 



Come undressed. 

 " Then, if to marry me I teaze her, 

 What will she say if that should please her? 

 Please, Sir. 

 " When cross nor good words can appease her : 

 What if such naughty whims should seize her? 

 You'd see. Sir. 

 " When wed she'll change, for Love's no sticker, 

 And love her husband less than liquor. 



Then lick her. 

 " To leave me then I can't compel her, 

 Though every woman else excel her. 



Sell her. 

 " The doubting youth to Echo turned again. Sir, 

 To ask advice, but found it did not answer." 



Hubert Guy. 



Dogs driven Mad by Cold (2"'* S. v. 88.) — In 

 The Titan of March Is a paper on "The Romance 

 of the Ice-Fields," in which it is stated, on the 

 authority of Dr. Kane, that some of the Esqui- 

 maux dogs of his expedition were obliged to be 

 shot, on account of symptoms of madness. 



O.T.D. 



Tracing Paper (2"'^ S. v. 108.)— I have used it 

 made as follows, and it Is all that can be desired : — 



Mix by gentle heat an ounce of Canada balsam, 

 and a quarter of a pint of spirits of turpentine ; 

 with a soft brush spread It over one side of good 

 tissue-paper. It will not be greasy, and is very 

 transparent. R. W. Hackwood. 



