SCOTTISH MULLS. 



" There'll be plenty of pipe, and a glorious supply 

 Of the good sneesh-te-bacht, and the fine cut-and-dry ; 

 There we'll drink foggy Care to his gloomy abodes, 

 And we'll smoke, till we sit in the clouds, like the gods. 



The Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot- 

 land possesses a rappoir or snuff-grater of Ivory, 

 beautifully carved and probably of Italian workman- 

 ship, said to have belonged to Prince Charles Edward, 

 known to " disloyal Southrons " as " the Young Pre- 

 tender." They also have a curious conical snuff-box 

 of horn (here engraved) which was given 

 to Mr. George Barclay, of Cavill, by 

 Pope Innocent XIIL, when he was at 

 Eome, 22nd August, 1722. They have 

 also specimens of the Scottish mulls of 

 wood and horn; ultimately they were 

 made of horn only, with a tight-fitting 

 cover of the same. Dr. Nott in a note 

 to his edition of Dekker's Gull's Horn- 

 book, says : " the Scotch mull, or sneesh- 

 ing mull, with a spoon and hare's foot 

 appended by chains — the one for apply- 

 ing snuff to the nose, and the other for 

 wiping the upper lip, is of no very 

 distant date. I well remember to have seen Bad- 

 deley the actor come upon the stage with such an 

 apparatus, as Gibby, in The Wonder, when Garrick 

 was playing Don Felix.'" This mull of curved horn is 

 peculiar in its nationality ; and was furnished in olden 

 time, if belonging to a person of consequence, with a 



