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They are not mine.” Of other passages which 
please him, he occasionally says, — “ This is good 
sense.” And on one oecasion, where Spence had 
objected, he says candidly :—“ This is bad, indeed,” 
— “and this.” 
At p.50. Spence writes :— “‘ There’s a passage 
which I remember I was mightily pleased with 
formerly in reading Cervantes, without seeing any 
reason for it at that time; tho’ I now imagine that 
which took me in it comes under this view. Speak- 
ing of Don Quixote, the first time that adventurer 
came in sight of the ocean, he expresses his senti- 
ments on this occasion in the following manner :— 
‘ He saw the sea, which he had never seen before, 
and thought it much bigger than the river at Sala- 
manea.’” On this occasion, Pope suggests, — 
“ Dr. Swift’s fable to Ph s, of the two asses 
and Socrates.” S. W. Srncer. 
April 8. 1850, 
FOLK LORE. 
Charm for the Toothache.—The charm which 
one of your correspondents has proved to be in 
use in the south-eastern counties of England, and 
another has shown to be practised at Kilkenny, 
was also known more than thirty years ago in the 
north of Scotland. At that time I was a school-boy 
at Aberdeen, and a sufferer—probably it was in 
March or April, with an easterly wind—from tooth- 
ache. A worthy Scotch woman told me, that the 
way to be cured of my toothache was to find a 
charm for it in the Bible. I averred, as your cor- 
respondent the curate did, that I could not find 
any such charm. My adviser then repeated to me 
the charm, which I wrote down from her dicta- 
tion. Kind soul! she could not write herself. It 
was pretty nearly in the words which your cor- 
respondent has sent you. According to my recol- 
lection, it ran thus: —‘ Peter sat upon a stone, 
weeping. And the Lord said unto him, ‘Peter, 
why weepest thou?’ And he answered, and said, 
‘Lord, my tooth acheth. And the Lord said 
unto him, ‘ Arise, Peter, thy teeth shall ache no 
more.’ Now,” continued my instructress, “ if you 
gang home and put yon bit sereed into your Bible, 
youll never be able to say again that you canna 
find a charm agin the toothache i’ the Bible.” 
This was her version of the matter, and I have no 
doubt it was the orthodox one; for, although one 
of the most benevolent old souls I ever knew, she 
was also one of the most ignorant and superstitious. 
I kept the written paper, not in my Bible, but in 
an old pocket-book for many years, but it has 
disappeared. Joun Bruce. 
Easter Eggs (No. 16. p. 244.).— Breakfasting 
on Easter Monday, some years ago, at the George 
Inn at Ilminster, in the county of Somerset, in 
the palmy days of the Quicksilver Mail, when the 
table continued to be spread for coach travellers 
at that time from four in the morning till ten at 
night, we were presented with eggs stained in the 
boiling with a variety of colours: a practice which 
Brande records as being in use in his time in the 
north of England, and among the modern Greeks. 
8.8.8. 
Cure for the Hooping -cough.—“T know,” said 
one of my parishioners, “‘ what would cure him, 
but m’appen you wouldent believe me.” ‘ What 
is it, Mary?” Iasked. “Why, I did every thing 
that every body teld me. One teld me to get 
him breathed on by a pie-bald horse. I took him 
ever such a way, to a horse at , and put him 
under the horse’s mouth; but he was no better. 
Then I was teld to drag him backward through a 
bramble bush. I did so; but this didn’t cure him. 
Last of all, I was teld to give him nine fried mice, 
fasting, in a morning, in this way :—three the 
first morning; then wait three mornings, and 
then give him three more; wait three mornings, 
and then give him three more. When he had 
eaten these nine fried mice he became quite well. 
This would be sure to cure your child, Sir.” 
WELK 
Drayton Beauchamp. 
Gootet.—In Eccleshall parish, Staffordshire, 
Shrove Tuesday is called Gootet. I am not aware 
if this be the true spelling, for I have never seen 
it in print. Can any of your readers supply the 
etymology, or state whether it is so called in any 
other part of England? Ihave searched numerous 
provincial glossaries, but have hitherto been un- 
successful. B. G. J. 
THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH’S POCKET-BOOK. 
Itis reasonable to conclude, that the article copied 
from Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, in No. 13., fur- 
nishes the strongest evidence that can be adduced in 
support of the opinion, that the book in the posses- 
sion of Dr. Anster is the one found on the Duke 
of Monmouth when captured, after his defeat at 
Sedgemoor ; and, if so, it is impossible to admit 
the hypothesis, because a portion of the contents 
of the real book has been given to the world and 
contains matter far too important to have been 
passed over by Dr. Anster, had it existed in his 
volume. In the 6th edition of Dr. Welwood’s 
Memoirs of the most material Transactions in Eng- 
land for the last Hundred Years preceding the Re- 
volution in 1688, printed for ‘Tim. Goodwin, at 
| the Queen’s Head, against St. Dunstan’s Church, 
in Fleet Street, 1718,” the following passage is to 
be found at p. 147.:— 
“ But of the most things above mentioned there is 
an infallible proof extant under Monmouth’s own hand, 
in a little pocket-book which was taken with him and 
delivered to King James; which by an accident, as 
needless to mention here, I had leaye to copy and did 
