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21. 15. The leathern bottle, from its size, must have been a most 
convenient vehicle for the removal of corn and other stolen property. 
21. 22. Our author does not appear to have had any idea of the 
use of soot as a top-dressing to land, but its value is now well 
understood, as one of the greatest improvers of cold, mossy grass- 
lands. 
21. 23. It is leanness and ill-dressing that occasion nits and lice, 
not the state of the weather when they are taken to house. 
22. 25. 1. 7. There is a mistake in the printing of this line: 
there should be no parenthesis, and the word ev should be omitted. 
Thus the lines will read : 
“Fat hog or ye kill it, 
Or else ye doo spill it.” 
23. 4. The rack ought to be accessible on all sides, and perhaps 
high enough for small cattle to escape under it from their more 
powerful adversaries.—M. 
*« Barth.’ Wedgwood includes this under Jerth, the seaman’s term 
for snug anchorage for themselves or their vessels. See Glossary. 
23. 7. Cf. “A jires-bird, for that she sat continually by the fire 
side.”—Tom Tell-Trothe’s New Yeare’s Gift, New Shakspere Soc. 
ed. Furnivall, p. 12. 
23. 9. ‘‘ Beath.” Bathing at the Fire, as it is commonly called, 
when the wood is yet unseasoned, sets it to what purpose you think 
fit—T. R. 
23. 24. “Camping.” ‘Goals were pitched 150 or z00 yards 
apart, formed of the thrown-off clothes of the competitors.” Each 
party had two goals 1o or 15 yards apart. The parties, ro to 15 
~ aside, stand in line facing their own goals and each other, at 10 
yards distance, midway between the goals and nearest that of their 
adversaries. An indifferent spectator throws up the ball—the size 
of a cricket ball—midway between the confronted players, whose 
object is to seize and convey it between their own goals. The 
shock of the first onset to catch the falling ball is very great, and 
the player who seizes it speeds home pursued by his opponents, 
through whom he has to make his way, aided by the jostlings of 
his own sidesmen. If caught and held, or in imminent danger of 
it, he ¢hrows the ball, but must in no case gzve it, to a comrade, 
who, if it be not arrested in its course, or he be jostled away by 
his eager foes, catches it, and hurries home, winning the game or 
snotch if he contrive to carry, not throw, it between. the goals. A 
holder of the ball caught with it in his possession loses a smofch. At 
the loss of each of these the game recommences after a breathing 
time. Seven or nine svofches are the game, and these it will some- 
times take two or three hours to win. Sometimes a large football 
was used, and the game was then called “‘ kicking camp,” and if 
played with the shoes on, ‘‘savage camp.’—Abridged from Major 
Moor’s Description. 
