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because everyone knew that hedgehogs were dangerous to cows. When asked why, he said because they sucked their milk.

I told tliis to Col., who remarked, directly I mentioned

the hedgehog, " A hedgehog has no friends,'' and said when I concluded, "Oh, yes, of course, I know that." His home was in Hertfordshire, and he said all the country folks there say the same about hedgehogs and cows.

D. H. MouTRAY Read.

Apparitions in Lincolnshire.

A woman of twenty-seven or twenty-eight said to me at Kirton- in-L,indsey in August, 19 10, " O, Miss, me and my sister F. did see something queer to-night I You know that door going into the garden of the house that used to be the prison. There seemed to be a man standing at it. F. saw him as well before I spoke, and she got fast hold of my arm. It was as plain as anything, and then he seemed to go right through the door, because he wasn't there ! He could not have gone down the road without us seeing him, and he could not have come past us. It was the strangest thing ! Well, perhaps it was a shadow we just caught sight of, but then if that was it, why did we both of us think the same? He had a blue jacket and grey trousers, but one of us noticed he had a hat on, and the other remembered him bald.

" My mother once saw one of my uncles when he was dead. It was at Bawtry [Yorkshire] she was living then. She looked out of the window and he was outside, she called her brother . . . and he saw him as well. When uncle's wife {i.e. widow] came she could see nothing. He had gone. But she died very soon after."

M. Peacock.

An Ancient Rent Service.

In accordance with custom, the City Solicitor (Sir Homewood Crawford) and the Secondary (Mr. William Hayes) attended before Sir John Macdonell, the King's Remembrancer, at the