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Wellington's Despatches) near the little sanitarium of Chiculda 

 these mungooses are to be found. Length of a young male, killed 

 by a greyhound with me, was 16-J inches, tail with hair nearly 18, 

 rather longer in proportion than Jerdon's. His parents, fully the 

 size given by Jerdon, escaped. They were decidedly more hairy 

 than any mungoos of the plains. The feet were more brown than 

 red iu my specimen muzzle, face and inside of the ears reddish. 

 No. 28, Page 41. Striped Hyaena. 



Since these notes went to press, the remark that a hya3na gives 

 a long run before he is speared, not from speed but from the way 

 the brute turns, has been corroborated by an instance in which a 

 hyaena after having been reached and stuck within the first few 

 fields gave us a gallop of fully three miles over very bad ground 

 and under a mid-day sun before he was killed. 



Page 114, printed at the " BLUE BELL," and at the " RING." 



The writer of these notes has owned, vide page 10, that he reads 

 more for pleasure than profit ; some one may like him care to know 

 that in the entertaining " History of Sign Boards from the ear- 

 liest times to the present day" published in 1866 by "John 

 Camden Hotton" these signs are thus noticed : 



" At the Bell, in the Poultry, lived, in the reign of King 

 William and Queen Anne, Nathaniel Crouch, the famous book- 

 seller, who was the first to condense great and learned works into 

 a small and popular form. He generally wrote under the name of 

 " John Burton." His " Historical Rarities in London and West- 

 minster, was one of the books Dr. Johnson, in his old age, desired 

 to read again in remembrance of the days of his youth." 



" The Ring was the sign of one of the booksellers in Little Bri- 

 tain, in the reign of Queen Anne, and the Golden Ring was, in 

 1723, the sign of G. Corners on Ludgate Hill, who published a 

 black letter edition of the "Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam" 

 An old tradition that Guttenberg received the first idea of printing 

 from the seal of his ring impressed in wax, may have led those 

 booksellers to adopt that object for their sign." 



It is to be hoped that in 1870 printers cannot be found to pre- 

 pare, nor booksellers to publish such an unblushing guide to poach- 

 ing as that by J. S. It may be as well to mention " Gotham'' 

 Old N. Bailey, in his wonderful Dictionary, (why is it so little 

 known ?) thus writes of it : 



"AS WISE AS A MAN OF GOTHAM." 



" This proverb passes for the Periphrasis of a Fool, as a hun- 

 dred Fopperies are feigned and fathered on the Townsfolk of 

 Gotham^ a Village in Nottinghamshire." 



