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Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary (2 nd S. ix. 

 225.)— The Editor is no doubt aware of the fact, 

 though not coming within the scope of his Note 

 to mention it — that the Scottish Dictionary was 

 first published by Dr. Jamieson in 1808, 2 vols. 

 4to., dedicated to His Royal Highness George 

 Prince of Wales, and under the auspices of a large 

 influential list of subscribers prefixed to it. At 

 the end of vol. ii. a Supplement of " Additions and 

 Corrections" is also given. I believe it requires 

 the two volumes of the Supplement subsequently 

 printed to bring up this original edition to the 

 full mark. 



The eminent lexicographer, besides being an 

 indefatigable collector of our words and phrases, 

 was a keen fisher. An excellent trouting loch of a 

 friend of mine, situated in a wild muir about nine 

 miles south of Glasgow, afforded to the worthy 

 Doctor a day's sport when he pleased. On one 

 occasion, while ardently engaged at his piscatorial 

 amusement, a number of curlews continually 

 flew about his head, sufficient to have disturbed 

 any ordinary composure, but only eliciting from 

 him the kindly expression, " I wad'na gie the 

 ivheeple o' the whaup for a' the nichtingales in 

 Ingland." (See " Whaup," Diet. s. v.) G. N. 



Dinner Etiquette (2 nd S. ix. 8 1 . 1 30. 1 70. 275.) 

 — I was once told by a gentleman who had been 

 quartered in Ireland during the rebellion, that at 

 that time the ladies there used to sit on one side 

 of the table, and the gentlemen on the other. I 

 used to wonder at seeing the same thing often in 

 country houses at breakfast, when people sit as 

 they like more than they can do at dinner, till 

 some one explained to me that all ladies wished to 

 sit with their backs to the light in the morning, 

 lest their complexions should not stand day-light, 



J. P'. O. 



A lady, who died in 1840, and whose eldest 

 daughter was born in 1798, told me, that when 

 she first saw a lady hook herself to the arm of a 

 gentleman in a ball-room, instead of being led 

 out by the hand, she felt so indignant that she 

 remarked to a friend : " If my daughter were in- 

 troduced, and did that, I should take her home 

 immediately." F. 



Pigtails and Powder (2 nd S. ix. 163. 205.) — 

 Though born in the nineteenth century, I can re- 

 member the 2nd Life Guards wearing long pig- 

 tails. My father, an Admiral, wore powder and 

 pigtail tor many years within my memory, as did 

 Lord Keith many years after my father's was 

 docked. Tin' last tail I recollect to have seen in 

 •t.y was that of Lord Kenyon. J. P. O. 



An Oi.i> Soldier I consider is incorrect as to 

 the lime when the military were denuded of those 

 preposterous appendages. Certainly as late as 

 1*14, the band of the 1st, or Royals, then com- 

 manded by Her .Majesty's father, the late Duke of 



Kent, were so disfigured. They were stationed 

 at Kensington in the barracks opposite the palace, 

 since pulled down. The men were not only 

 decked out with huge pigtails in tin cases var- 

 nished black, but all the back part of the head 

 was plastered with some combination of flour and 

 grease, and most unsightly and uncomfortable the 

 wearers looked. 



I apprehend we are indebted to the musical 

 taste of the Duke of Kent for setting the example 

 for improving military bands: for this one be- 

 longing to the Royals was of a very superior class 

 to the general character of military bands of the 

 time, so far as correct performance of good music 

 was concerned. I know that my early acquaint- 

 ance with the compositions of Mozart, and other 

 celebrities, at that period almost unknown to 

 English ears, was due to the masterly execution of 

 that band, and the civilities of the Band-master, a 

 German, whose name has escaped my recollection, 

 who permitted me to be present at their practice. 



R. H. 

 Paul Hiffernan (2 nd S. iv. 190.) — The speci- 

 men of "pure classical fustian" is taken, with a 

 slight variation, from the Juan, London, 1754, 

 8vo., pp. 64. The new tragedy, Philoclea, is ridi- 

 culed and parodied, in what are said to be quota- 

 tions from a MS. tragedy written by a university 

 lad in imitation of Nat. Lee. The lines there 

 are: — 



" Inhuman monster — shackled though I be, 

 I'll burst those chains, and rise up to the spheres, 

 Snatch gleaming bolts from Jove's red thundering hand, 

 And down to Hell as with hard snowballs pelt thee." 



A notice of Philoclea is in the Biographia Dra- 

 matica. The Juan is a well-written pamphlet on 

 matters now obsolete. On the title-page is a very 

 spirited vignette by R. S. Miiller. Is the author 

 known ? The style is above Hiffernan's. 



The other specimen is so much in the style of 

 Hiffernan's " Farewell ye cauliflowers," &c, that 

 it might pass for his ; but, from the quotation 

 below, it seems to be a translation. W. D. 



" My Eye and Betty Martin " (2 nd S. ix. 73., 

 &c.) — If Mr. Pishey Thompson had been aware 

 of the authorised version of the origin of the 

 above phrase, as given by the omniscient Joseph 

 Miller, both Ignoramus' criticism and his own 

 somewhat touchy reply would have been uncalled 

 for. The story is this : — 



An English sailor going into a foreign church 

 heard a person offering up a prayer to St. Martin, 

 beginning " O Mihi, beate Martine ades," or " sis 

 propitius," or something of that kind. Jack, on 

 giving an account of what he had heard, said that 

 he could not make much of it, but it seemed to 

 him to be " All my eye and Betty Martin." Hence, 

 the phrase as applied (and shall I say exemplified 

 in the case before us ?) where a great fuss is made 

 about very little. J. Eastwood. 



