88 ON FASOINATION. 
name of some Saxon possessor; probably the same name as 
Aylesbury. 
Eron. Eton and Upton once evidently formed but one parish; 
a glance at the maps placed together will show this. For the 
sake of distinction, the little suburb which had grown up near 
the town of Windsor, was called Eton, or properly Ey-ron, 
meaning TOWN BY WATER, and the original village Up-ron, or 
UPLAND TOWN. 
Farnuam. Here for the first time we have a genuine botanical 
name. Farnham is so called from the Frrn which grows or 
once grew abundantly in its neighbourhood. 
KE. J. Payne. 
(Lo be continued.) 
On Fascination. 
HE power of fascination, as possessed by certain animals, is 
very remarkable. We are all familiar with the stories 
which tell us how birds or small animals are fascinated by 
snakes: but it does not appear to be equally well-known that 
the same power is shared by other creatures, and those natives 
of our own country. As an illustration and in evidence of this 
fact, I will just narrate one or two circumstances which have 
occurred within my own sphere of observation. 
In the winter of 1848, while spending my holidays with a 
school-fellow at a farm-house in Warwickshire, two hens were 
carried off by a Fox in a somewhat mysterious manner. They had 
been seen to go to roost the night before upon a long ladder, 
which lay across the beams of an open waggon-shed: and how 
Reynard could possibly have got to them, was a matter of 
conjecture. The next night, my companion and I stationed our- 
selves in a little outhouse attached to the shed, whence we could 
see all that passed inside, by means of a hole in the wall. At 
length our attention was arrested by a short snappish bark, fol- 
