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 obtained in tljc $Jitdunorc 

 in tl)c East 



By E. A. RAWLENCE. 



(Read Sth Dec., 1914.) 



N a paper which I had the pleasure of reading before 

 the Field Club last year, we considered some 

 old-time remedies for various ailments to which 

 poor humanity is subject. I now propose to 

 touch upon two other sides of Village life 

 which, as the sequel will show, are somewhat 

 interlaced. 



In regard to Village jokes, it appears to 

 have been a practice, probably during the first half of the 

 nineteenth century and some way back into the eighteenth, 

 to catch hold of some faux pas or delinquency of which 

 one individual or more in a particular village had been 

 guilty, and as a consequence attach some nickname to the 

 inhabitants of that village. These nicknames often caused a 

 considerable amount of irritation, and even a number of broken 

 heads amongst the more susceptible portion of the community ; 

 and naturally the more irritation any member showed the more 

 was he made a butt. I have met with some difficulty in my 



