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" Bannisters Budget" — Can you or any of 

 your numerous readers tell me where, or how, I 

 can procure a copy of " Two Ways of telling a 

 Story," which formed part of that popular enter- 

 tainment. The story of a shipwreck is related by 

 the chaplain and by the boatswain. 



A Constant Eeadeb. 



Oliphant of Gask. — Any genealogical informa- 

 tion respecting the family of Oliphant of Gask 

 will be thankfully received, especially any con- 

 necting with the head of the family Janet Oli- 

 phant, who married Drummond of Colquhalzie, 

 attainted in 1745. E. M. A. 



Kennaquhar. 



An Old Riddle. — I have ringing in my memory 

 the words of an old riddle which used to be current 

 among the boys of the village, and I transcribe it 

 for preservation in your collection of popular 

 .antiquities. I fear that my version is not alto- 

 gether complete, though accurate as far as it 

 goes : — 



" Riddle me, riddle me right : 

 Where was I last Saturdaj' night ? 

 I saw a chemp-champ champing ou his bridle : 

 I saw an old fox working himself idle : 

 The boughs did shiver, and I did shake, 

 To see what a hole the fox did make." 



In Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes is the following, 

 which doubtless has reference to the same story : — 



" One moonshiny night, 

 As I sat high, 

 Waiting for one 

 To come by, 

 The boughs did bend. 

 My heart did ache, 

 To see what a hole the fox did make." 



In a note the reader is referred to Matthew 

 Paris, but as I have not the work on my own scant 

 shelves, and have no library to go to, may I ask 

 you to give me the legend? I have some dim 

 recollection of a story told in explanation of the 

 rhyme, of a lady, who, having made an assigna- 

 tion with her lover, went to the trysting-spot be- 

 fore the hour, and discovered his horse fastened 

 to a tree, and, from the boughs into which she 

 had climbed, observed the false one engaged in 

 digging a grave for her reception. T. Q. C. 



Bodmin. 



William Pvlteney, Earl of Bath. — Who was his 

 father? H.B. 



Ignagnivg and Ignagnus. — A morris or sword- 

 dance some years ago was common in the Fylde, 

 a lane known by this name. There were seven 

 actors some fifty years ago. A merryman first 

 entered the house for permission to act. This 

 being granted, there advanced a Tospot in rags ; 

 the grand Turk and son, St. George, a Doctor, 

 and a Bessy. St. George and the Turk fight ; 



the latter falls; but the doctor, after boasting of his 

 qualifications and travels, brings him again to life, 

 saying : — 



" I've a bottle in my pocket called alicumpane, 

 Rise, brave Turk, and fight again." 



The whole concludes with a song. I have the 

 copy of the play which was acted here ; but it is 

 different from that published in an old number of 

 the Quarterly, and known in other counties, yet 

 has evidently the same origin. In Scotland Gal- 

 gacus is the horse, and the Turk in another place 

 a guy. In the times of our fathers a horse head 

 was carried. I believe it to be a remnant of the 

 Danish sword dance ; but the derivation of the 

 name Ignagning, whence comes it ? Formerly it 

 was with us a sport of Whitsuntide ; now a kind 

 of successor named " Jolly lads " is performed at 

 Easter. I have been told it was in honour of the 

 sun, a kind of agnalia, whilst others say that it 

 derives its cognomen from Ignis Agnaj. T. — 



Blackpool. 



Dornichs ; Hocking Women. — In the accounts 

 of a college in Oxford in the seventeenth century 

 occur the following entries : — 



" To the fuller Whj-te for scowring Dornicks." 

 " To the Hocking Women." 



The latter occurs twice. It is suggested that 

 as diaper is said to be derived from d'Ypres, so 

 Dornicks may be from the Flemish name for 

 Tournay. Deo Duce. 



Oliver: Arthur. — 



" I shall not be surprised if those zealots who treat the 

 exploits of Brian Borhoime as fictions believe in the 

 conquest of Irland by Oliver, and that the monster which 

 Arthur slew was a popish Archbishop in wings and ar- 

 mour." — Remarks on Early History of Irland, DubUn, 

 1774. p. 36. 



Oliver? Arthur? L.M. 



Sir Charles Molloy. — I am much obliged for 

 your information about the meaning of the ex- 

 pression " entered the navy with King William's 

 letter." The officer alluded to was Sir Charles 

 Molloy, of whom an account is given in Hasted's 

 Kent"., as he lived and was buried at Shadowhurst. 

 He left his property to Mr. Cooke, of Swift's 

 Cranbvook, whose uncle, I think, was member for 

 Middlesex, who took in addition the name of 

 Molloy. Can you give me any information as to 

 what family Sir Charles Molloy was of? and what 

 has become of Mr. Cooke Molloy's descendants? 



E. D. 



Old Mother Fyson. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any information of a celebrated fortune- 

 teller who lived at Hales in Norfolk some seventy 

 or eighty years ago. She was commonly known 



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