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Ampers ^ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.; Vol.vili., 

 pp. 173. 223. 254.). — Allow me to thank both $. 

 and Mr. Henry Walter for their replies to my 

 Query ; but I am unhappily no wiser than Mr. 

 Lower was after *.'s first response. What on 

 earth " et-per-se" or " and-per-se-and" can mean, 

 I am at a loss to imagine. Why should et be 

 called "e^ by itself?" Until this Query is an- 

 swered, I am as much in the dark as ever. While 

 I am upon the matter, I would farther ask this 

 mysterious Ampers and, "who gave thee that 

 name?" May it find a proxy to answer for^it ! 



C. Mansfield Ingleby, 



Birmingham, 



The origin of this expression is explained in 

 Vol. ii., p. 318. With regard to the orthography of 

 the word, it seems to me that, if the etymon be 

 followed, it ought to be written and-per-se-and ; 

 if the pronunciation, ampussy and. L . 



Throwing Old Shoes for Luck (Vol. vii., p.411.). 

 — There is an old rhyme still extant^ which gives 

 an early date to this singular custom : 



" When Britons bold, 



Wedded of old, 

 Sandals were backward thrown, 



The pair to tell, 



That, ill or well, 

 The act was all their own." 



An octogenarian of my acquaintance informs 

 me that he heard himself thus anathematised when, 

 leaving his native village with his bride, he re- 

 fused to comply with the extortionate demands of 

 an Irish beggar : 



" Then it's bad luck goes wld yer, 

 For my shoe I toss, 

 An ye niver come back, 

 "Twill be no great loss." 



Charles Reed. 



Ennui (Vol. vii., p. 478.). — It is a curious fact 

 that in English, properly so called, we have no 

 word to express this certainly un-English sensa- 

 tion, which we are obliged to borrow from our 

 friends across the channel. They repay themselves 

 with " comfortable," which is quite as character- 

 istically wanting in their vocabulary : so they 

 lose nothing by the exchange. Were we disposed 

 to supply the gaps in our language, by using our 

 own native words (which is much to be desired), 

 we might find a sufficient (and I believe the only) 

 synonyme in the Bedfordshire folk-word unhed: 

 at any rate, it is near enough for us, for we neither 

 require the word nor the feeling it is meant to 

 designate. E. S. Taylor. 



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