By J. U. Powell, M.A. 128 
‘slain Danes.” There is also, we believe, a kind of kidney-bean 
es ed Waterloo bean: it comes up with red stains on the leaves, 
and is thought to refer to bloodshed, just as there is the common 
name for the dark red Wallflower—Bloody Warrior. The next 
article shows how the memory of the Danes survived in the western 
part of the county. At Kingston Deverill, which is within sight 
of Alfred’s Tower at Stourton, a red-haired man will still be known 
asa “ Dane,” or “ Daner”’; and it is worth noticing that a bottom 
in this parish is called “‘ Danes’ Bottom.” 
_ The following names may go together :—“ Mice’s-mouths,” 
*« Snakes’ victuals ”’ (negant dulces serpentibus aeque Ferre cibum ; 
Virgil, Georgic ii.); “ Rabbit-flower,” “ Cuckoo’s bread and 
cheese,” ‘“Codlins and cream,” “Golden chain,” ‘Shepherd’s 
W eather-glass,”’ all “‘ smell of a very rich summer.” 
_ Miscellaneous flower-names are :—‘ Blind man,” ‘“ Creeping 
Jack,” “Creeping Jenny,” “Daddy’s whiskers,” ‘‘ Farewell sum- 
beard,” “ Old woman’s pin-cushion,” “ Peace and plenty,” “ Pots 
and kettles,” ‘“Granny’s nightcap,” all of which will be found in 
ir places, although some of them are not confined to this dialect, 
gut are familiar. , 
_3.—Words exact and useful. 
‘The modern written language cannot, without sacrificing neatness, 
rive the exact shade of expression which some of the following 
vords convey. ‘ Moreish,” “‘ nammet,” ‘ he-body,” are awkwardly 
presented by ‘making the eater wish to have more,’’ “ preliminary 
ancheon,” “ woman of masculine appearance ” ; “ stour”’ is neater 
grow worse.” ‘I can go no-whither,” said an old man to me 
e other day. What living writer would have been so correct ? 
