204 love's meinie. 



You will please observe that some of the 

 scientific people call it a blackbird — some a 

 thrush — some a starling — and the rest a 

 Cincle, whatever that may be. It remains for 

 them now only to show how the Cincle has 

 been developed out of the Winkle, and the 

 Winkle out of the Quangle- Wangle. You 

 will note also that the Yorkshire and Durham 

 mind is balanced between the two views of its 

 being a crow or a magpie, I am content 

 myself to be in harmony with France and 

 Italy, in my ' Merula,' and with Germany in 

 my Torrent - Ouzel. Their * bach ' (as in 

 Staubbach, Giesbach, Reichenbach) being 

 essentially a mountain waterfall; and their 

 ' amsel,' as our Damsel, merely the Teutonic 

 form of the Demoiselle or Doniicilla — ' House- 

 Ouzel,' as it were, (said of a nice girl) — 

 Domicilla again being, I think, merely the 

 transposition of Ancilla Domini, — Behold, the 

 handmaid of the Lord : (see frontispiece to 

 third volume of ' Modern Painters ') which, if 

 young ladies in general were to embroider on 

 their girdles — though their dresses, fitting at 

 present ' as close as a glove ' (see descrip- 

 tion of modern American ideal in *A Fair 



