Aug. 9. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



99 



" To sneeze on Friday, give a gift. 



Saturday, receive a gift. 

 Sunday, before you break your fast. 

 You'll see your true love before a week's past." 



My informant cannot recollect the consequences 

 of sneezing on Wednesday and Timrsday. 

 " Sneeze on Sunday morning fasting, 

 You'll enjoy your own true love to everlasting." 



If you sneeze on a Saturday night after the 

 candle is lighted, you will next week see a stranger 

 you never saw before. 



A new moon seen over the right shoulder is 

 lucky, over the left shoulder unlucky, and straight 

 before prognosticates good luck to the end of the 

 moon. 



Hair and nails should always be cut during the 

 waning of the moon. 



Whatever you think of when you see a star 

 shooting, you are sure to have. 



When you first see the new monn in the new 

 year, take your stocking off from one foot, and 

 run to the next style ; when you get tliere, be- 

 tween the great toe and the next, you will find a 

 hair, which will be the colour of your lover's. 



When you first see the new moon after mid- 

 summer, go to a stile, turn your back to it, and 

 say,— 



" All hail, new moon, all hail to thee ! 

 I prithee good moon, reveal to me 

 This night wlio shall my true love be : 

 Who he is, and what he wears, 

 And what he does all months and years." 



To see a Lover in a Dream. — Pluck yarrow 

 from a young man's grave, saying as you do so — 



" Yarrow, sweet yarrow, the first that I have found. 

 And in the name of Jesus I pluck it from the ground. 

 As Joseph loved s\veet Mary, and took her for his 



dear, ^ 



So in a dream this night, I hope my true love will 



appear." 



Sleep with the yarrow under the pillow. 



J.M.(4) 



Some time ago I was in the neighbourhood of 

 Cainelford (a small town in Cornwall), and in- 

 quiring the name of a church I saw in the dis- 

 tance, was told that its name was Advent, though 

 it was generally called Saint Teen. Now Teen in 

 Cornish = to light. Can this name have been 

 applied from any peculiar ceremonies observed 

 here during Advent ? J. M. (4) 



iHiiior ^aUi. 



Curiom Inscription. — I obtained the following 

 iuBcription from a person in the country, and 

 if you wi.sh to make a " note " of it, it is perfectly 



at your service. The arrangement of the letters 

 is curious. 



" Sene. 



At. hi Hiss to 



Ne LI esca Theri 



Neg Ray. C. Hanged. 



F Roma bvs. y. L, 



ifet oli . . . . Fele SS. C. 

 la. YB: year than. B.C. 



La Ys '- he Go tli 



Erp E. L F bvtn » 



ows H e'st 



Urn E D T odv Stli 



E R 



Se . r Lf. 



An old Record. J. H. W 



Birch Hill, May, 1844." 



R. H. 



Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture. — In 

 Brooke's Abridgement, tit. " Chattelcs," it appears 

 that in the 21st Hen. VII., a.d. 1503, it was held 

 that though the frame-work of the windows be- 

 longed to the heir, the glass was the property of 

 the executors, and might therefore be removed by 

 them, " qwir le meason est perfite sauns le glasse." 

 In A.D. 1599 Lord Coke informs us it was in the 

 Common Pleas " resolved per totam curium, that 

 glass annexed to windows by nails, or in any other 

 manner, could not be removed ; for without glass 

 it is no perfect house." J. 6. M. 



D' Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith. — IMr. D'Israeli 

 congratulates himself with much satisfaction, in 

 his Essay on the Literary C'haracte?; both in his 

 Preface, p. xxix., and in the text, p. 187. vol. i., 

 in having written this immortal sentence : 



" The defects of great men are the consolation of the 

 dunces." 



— more particularly as it appears Lord Byron had 

 " deeply nndersco7-ed it." Perhaps he was un- 

 aware that Pope, in a letter to Swift, Feb. IG, 

 1733, had said : 



" A fiw loose things sometimes fall from men of wit, 

 by which censorious fouls judge as ill of them as they 

 possibly can, for their own comfort." 



And that Goldsmith says : 



" The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those 

 who are themselves most foolish." — Citizen of the 

 World. 



James Coknisu. 



CDurrtr^. 



ON A SONG IN SCOTt's PIRATE " TIRE ON THE 



MAINTOP." 



In the 231st number of that excellent New York 

 periodical. The Literary World, published on the 

 5th of. July, there is an article on "Steamboats 

 and Stcamboating in the South West," in which I 

 find the following passage : — 



