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his eyes giving a sort of roll of satisfac- 

 tion as the thing is swallowed. 1 



G. D. L. 



1 An Oxford friend tells me of a curious name for wood lice 

 current in Oxfordshire, namely, "God Almighty's pigs." T. 

 Tims, the Varsity bargeman, informed my friend that his mother 

 cured him of whooping-cough by giving him fried woodlice ground 

 to powder, and he called them by the above extraordinary name. 



