PUSS AND ANACRAJIS. 



Southwell on Saturdays, that being 

 "besides, quite enough for the lite- 

 rary wants of the place. " Through- 

 out a very rainy summer, I set out," 

 says he, " at five every Saturday 

 morning, carried a burden of from 

 three pounds' weight to thirty, 

 opened shop at ten, starved in it 

 all day upon bread, cheese, and a 

 half pint of ale, took from one to 

 six shillings, shut up at four, and, 

 by trudging through the solitary 

 night and the deep roads five hours 

 more, I arrived at Nottingham at 

 nine, where I always found a mess 

 of milk porridge by the fire, pre- 

 pared by my valuable sister." This 

 humble attempt, however, was the 

 beginning of his prosperity. Next 

 year he was offered about two 

 hundred pounds' weight of old 

 books, on his note - of - hand, for 

 twenty-seven shillings, by a Dis- 

 senting minister, to whom he was 



known; and upon this he imme- 

 diately determined to break up his 

 establishment at Southwell, and to 

 transfer himself to Birmingham. 

 He did so, and succeeded so well, 

 that by never suffering his expenses 

 to exceed five shillings a-week, he 

 found that by the end of the first 

 year he had saved about twenty 

 pounds. This, of course, enabled 

 him to extend his business, which 

 he soon ma'de a very valuable one. 

 Birmingham was to Hutton what 

 Philadelphia was to Franklin. The 

 first time he had ever seen it was 

 when he entered it after running 

 away from his uncle's, a wearied 

 and a homeless wanderer, with 

 scarcely a penny in his pocket, and 

 not a hope in the world to trust to. 

 Yet in this place he was destined to 

 acquire, some years after, an ample 

 fortune, and to take his place among 

 the most honoured of its citizens. 



PUNS AM) MAGKAMS, 



A MONUMENTAL CONCEIT. 



The following epitaph is on an 

 old monument in St. Ann and St. 

 Agnes Church : 



Qu an tris di c vul stra 



os guis ti ro uui nere vit 

 H san Chris mi c mu la 



In this distich, the last syllable in 

 each word in the upper line is the 

 same as that of each corresponding 

 word in the last line, and is to 

 be found in the centre. It reads 

 - thus : 



" Quos anguis tristi diro cum vulncre 



Stravit, 

 IIos sanguis Christi miro cum munere 



lavit." 



TRANSLATION. 



"Those who have felt the serpent's 

 venomed wound, 



In Christ's miraculous blood have heal- 

 ing found." 



ELEANOR DAVIES. 



Perhaps the happiest of ana- 

 grams was that produced on a 

 singular person and occasion. Lady 

 Eleanor Davies, the wife of the 

 celebrated Sir John Davies, the 

 poet, was a very extraordinary cha- 

 racter. She was the Cassandra of 

 her age; and several of her pre- 

 dictions warranted her to conceive 

 she was a prophetess. As her pro- 

 phecies, in the troubled times of 

 Charles I., were iisually against the 

 government, she was at length 

 brought by them into the Court of 

 High Commission. 



The prophetess was not a little 

 mad, and fancied the spirit of Daniel 

 was in her, from au anagram she 

 had formed of her name : 



Eleanor U.ivics, 



Revcai, O D.unel ! 



The anagram had too much by 

 an L, and too little by an S; yet 



