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In some parts of Devonshire the pixies are 

 called " derricks," evidently the A.-S. "doeorg." 

 In Cornwall it is believed that wherever the pixies 

 are fond of resorting, the depths of the earth are 

 rich in metal. Very many mines have been dis- 

 covered by their singing. R. J. K. 



THE POOL OF THE BLACK HOUND. 



In the parish of Dean Prior is a narrow wooded 

 valley, watered by a streamlet, that in two or three 

 places falls into cascades of considerable beauty. 

 At the foot of one of these is a deep hollow called 

 the Hound's Pool. Its story is as follows. 



There once lived in the hamlet of Dean Combe 

 a weaver of great fame and skill. After long 

 prospei-ity he died, and was buried. But the next 

 day he appeared sitting at the loom in his cham- 

 ber, working diligently as when he was alive. His 

 sons applied to the parson, who went accordingly 

 to the foot of the stairs, and heard the noise of the 

 weaver's shuttle in the room above. " Knowles ! " 

 he said, " come down ; this is no place for thee." 

 "I will," said the weaver, "as soon as I have 

 worked out my quill," (the "qulU" is the shuttle 

 full of wool). " N.ay," said the vicar, " thou hast 

 been long enough at thy work ; come down at 

 once ! "—So when the spirit came down, the vicar 

 took a handful of earth from the churchyard, and 

 threw it in its face. And in a moment it became 

 a black hound. " Follow me," said the vicar ; and 

 it followed him to the gate of the wood. And 

 when they came there, it seemed as if all the trees 

 in the wood were " coming together," so great was 

 the wind. Then the vicar took a nutshell with a 

 hole in it, and led the hound to the pool below 

 the waterfall. " Take this shell," he said ; " and 

 when thou shall have dipped out the pool with it, 

 thou mayst rest — not before." And at mid-day, 

 or at midnight, the hound may still be seen at its 

 work. R- J- K- 



POPULAR BHTMES. 



The following popular rhymes may perhaps 

 amuse some of your readers. They are not to be 

 found in the article " Days Lucky or Unlucky," 

 in Brand's Popula?- Antiquities, or in Sir Henry 

 Ellis's notes (see his edition, vol. ii. p. 27.), and 

 perhaps have never been printed : — 



Days of the Week. — Marriage. 



" Monday for wealth, 



'I'uesday for health, 

 Wednesday the best day of all ; 



Thursdiiy for crosses, 



Friday for losses, 

 Saturday no luck at all." 



Muon. 

 " Saturday new, 

 And Sunday full. 

 Never was fine, 

 And never wool." 



Days of the Week. — Birth. 

 " Born of a Monday, 



Fair in face; 

 Born of a Tuesday, 



Full of God's grace ; 

 Born of a Wednesday, 



Merry and glad ; 

 Born of a Thursday, 



Sour and sad ; 

 Born of a Friday, 



Godly given ; 

 Born of a Saturday, 



Work for your living ; 

 Born of a Sunday, 



Never shall we want : 

 So there ends the week. 



And there's an end on't." 



How to treat a Horse. 



" Up the hill, urge him not ; 



Down the hill, drive him not ; 



Cross the flat, spare him not j 



To the hostler, trust him not." 



How to sow Beans. 

 " One for the mouse, 

 One for the crow, 

 One to rot, 

 One to grow." 



January Weather. 



" When the days lengthen, 

 The colds strengthen." 



Two German proverbial distiches, similar to the 

 last, are given in Korte's Sprichivijrler, p. 548. : 



" Wenn de Dage fangt an to langen, 

 Fangt de Winter an to strengen." 

 " Wenn die Tage langen, 

 Kommt der Winter gegangen." 



With the first set of rhymes, we may compare 

 the following verses on washing on the successive 

 days of the week, in Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes 

 of England, p. 42. ed. 3. : 



" They that wash on Monday 

 Have all the week to dry ; 

 They that wash on Tuesday, 



Are not so much awry ; 

 They that wash on Wednesday, 



Are not so much to blame ; 

 They that wash on Thursday, 



Wash for shame ; 

 They that wash on Friday, 



Wash in need ; 

 And they that wash on Saturday, 

 Oh! they are sluts indeed." 



iMtnor JJateS. 

 ^' Passilndion" and '' Bernfrynde."—lhx\e these 

 terms, which ]>lay so memorable a part in the 

 " Tale of King Edward and the Shepherd" 



