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 Collectanea. 363.

" Fustle, fustle, aul' wife,

An' I'll gie ye a man." " F — f — f — f — [Imitation of unsuccessful whistling.]

I'll (lee the best I can." •

My ae string walletie,

My twa string walletie,

My three string walletie,

0, weary fa' your dogs, gude wife.

They're rivin' a' my walleties !

{Straihdofj, ninety years ago.)

D.wiD RoRiE, M.D-

FoLKLORE Notes from Piedmont, III. {Continued from vol. xxh'. p. 364).

On the evening of the first of May the boys of the village ir> Piedmont, Savoy, and Provence, still practise the very ancient custom of planting a pine tree covered with garlands in front of the house of the most beautiful girl in the hamlet.

In Haute Savoy, on the first Sunday after Easter, in all the villages which are near a common, the children bring bundles of wood and efiigies made of reeds, which they burn, and dance' round the fire, all the time uttering a sort of wail.

ESTELLA CaNZIANI.

Folklore from New.market, Ca.mbridgeshire.

Frogs. — Grooms catch a frog and keep it in a bottle or tin until nothing but the bones remains. At the new moon they draw these up stream in running water ; one of the bones which floats is kept as a charm in the pocket or hung round the neck. This

' A variant of this is in Chambers's Pop. Rhymes of Scotland.