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question of their master to the native, nor to understand the reply the native makes.

The ordinary Muganda is given to lying, exaggerating, and tell- ing what he thinks will please, when speaking on indifferent topics,

but he is reticent about his religious practices.

John Roscoe.

Garland Day at Castleton : Addenda.

(Vol. xii., p. 421, and supra, p. 91.)

A lady, who desires that her name shall not be mentioned, has lately told me that instead of the lines : —

" If thou'd been wed as long as me T' pudding would ha' been wanted,"

what she heard some years ago was : —

" If thou'd been wed as long as me Thou wouldn't ha' been so wanton."

This second version makes sense, for it will be remembered that the morris-dancers at Castleton were old men. If correct, it tends to prove, as may already have been guessed from analogy, that Garland Day at Castleton was formerly a day of licence.

On the 29th of May, 1902, I sent my clerk Frank G. Jacobs to Castleton to get a photograph of the nosegay called " the queen," which, it will be remembered, is fixed into the top of the garland. Mr. Jacobs did not succeed in doing this : he was told that " there was not much time," and that the men who had charge of the nosegay were " afraid of its being knocked about and spoilt." One of Mr. Potter's sons told him that they were now going to call the nosegay " the king," in honour of King Edward VII. But they were not all agreed about changing the name, and there was a dis- pute about it.

Mr. Jacobs saw the garland hoisted to the top of the church tower. A great number of visitors were present. It is intended to " hold the garland " next year in a more sumptuous way than it has ever been held before.

S. O. Addy.