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of the paragraph, and learnt that he had obtained the story from an old resident in Chelsea, who knew it as a matter of local tradi- tion. A friend of mine, Mr. Herbert M. Broughton, of the Chancery Bar, has furnished me with the following variant. "An old general," he writes, " who had fought at Waterloo, told me that a boatman had informed him, when a boy, that Putney and Fulham were respectively named from a throwing encounter between two men, one of whom put his stone nigh and the other sent his stone full home."

F. A. Milne.

Do you know this story ? Queen Elizabeth in one of her " Progresses " passed through Hammersmith, and her horse cast a shoe there. A smith was sought for, and desired to shoe the Queen's horse. He was very nervous, and not so quick as the Queen wished ; and she called out to him, " Hammer ! hammer, smith ! hammer ! '" and the place was ever afterwards called Hammersmith.

A. B. GOMME.