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same time, be no question but the eggs of both these birds are often white and 
unspotted.—E d. 
Localities for the Nightingale in Yorkshire.— We have repeatedly heard 
a Nightingale singing in a small Fir-plantation close to the road-side, between 
Owston and Doncaster. There is a stream in the immediate vicinity. Now 
this is exactly the kind of locality in which Philomel appears to delight. The 
Yorkshireman newspaper of May 4, says:—“We have been favoured with the 
sight of one of these delightful singing-birds, which was caught the other day in 
Cawood Wood, the property of his Grace the Archbishop of York, by Mr. T. 
Wilson, of Layerthorpe, and a friend. This bird is in full plumage, and already 
nearly tamed. They are very rarely seen in this neighbourhood.”— Ed. 
A Jew de Mot. —Some one asked a wealthy Je# to take venison. “ No,” 
said the capitalist, “ I never eat wenshen; I don’t tink it so coot as mutton/' 
“ Oh,” replied his friend, “ I wonder at your saying so ; if venison is not better 
than mutton, -why does venison cost so much more?”—“ Yy ? 1 will tell you vy; 
in dish varld de people ahvaysh prefersh vat ish Deer [Year] to vat is Sheep 
[[cheap].— Mark-Lane Express. 
Quickness of Ear of the Cat turned to good Account.— During the driving 
of the Meer-Brook sough, in 1811, it was necessary to bore a hole from the surface 
down to the heading, for the purpose of giving air to the miners. The spot for 
commencing having been ascertained by careful drilling, the hole was bored to the 
depth of 104 fathoms, but owing so the rods having come in contact with a hard 
substance in the Shale called a cank, they swerved very much from the perden- 
dicular. At this depth relief should have been given, but it was now discovered 
that the boring tool had fallen somewhere wide of the mark, and there was 
nothing to work by but the sound produced by movement of the rods, which 
although distinctly heard appeared to come from ail points. In this dilemma a. 
person named Souter, who is now in the employ of Mr. Jessop, of Butterley, hit 
upon a novel expedient to ascertain the precise point from whence the sound 
proceeded. To this end Souter accompanied the miners to that part of the 
sough where the noise was heard, taking with hirii his Cat. Those below 
preserved a profound silence, and one of the men above, agreeable to previous 
arrangement, struck a distinct blow on the rods. Puss instantly turned her head 
in a particular direction, and on her position being altered, and the blow repeated, 
her attention was still drawn to the same point. The miners, trusting t# the 
superior hearing of the Cat, commenced driving in that direction, and after cutting 
through four feet of rock, came, as they expected, direct on the rods. The above 
was communicated to our correspondent by Mr. Wiieatcroft, mine agent, of Mat- 
lock Bath, who at the time was working in the sough.— Courier. 
