182 Notes and Comments. 
Mr. Cheesman’s work is well known to our readers, and The 
Naturalist is indebted to him for a number of racy papers. 
Yorkshire naturalists will certainly look forward to seeing 
him with them at the various meetings during the year. 
SPURN LIGHTS IN 1895. 
The accompanying block is made from a photograph taken 
by Mr. J. Darker Butterell, and is the only illustration we know 
showing three lighthouses on Spurn Point. It was taken just 
before Smeaton’s ‘old light’ was demolished, the wall around 
which, known as the ‘compound,’ still exists. Mr. Heseltine, of 
the Hull Trinity House, informs us that the old lighthouse was 
taken down in 1895, so that the photograph would be taken 
just before that. 
ARCADIA. 
It is refreshing to find a sample of mediaeval rurality now 
and again, as for example the following report taken from a 
recent issue of the daily press. It is headed, “May Day at 
Sompting.’— War time made no difference to the celebration 
of May Day at Sompting. In gala attire, and carrying garlands 
and floral wands, the children assembled early at the Abbots, 
where they went through the picturesque ceremony of crowning 
the May Queen. The regal honours fell this year on little 
Kitty Varndell, and her attendants were Kathleen Richardson 
and Olive Pierce. The Queen was “enthroned”’ in a donkey 
cart beneath a canopy of flowers and foliage. After the 
crowning came the procession through the village, the children 
singing patriotic songs as they merrily marched along. The 
Queen and her retinue led the way, and Britannia, with shield 
and tripod [!] was conspicuous among the masqueraders. At 
the residence of Mr. A. Pullen-Burry the children danced around 
the Maypole and sang appropriate songs. They were rewarded 
Naturalist, 
