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80 buildings did not exceed one foot in height. There were a great number, each constructed and owned by different sets of children, the chief of whom, shell in hand, accosted the passers by and said the following verse:

I feel sure the words will not bear the sense Miss Broadwood gives them. It is just one of those delightful phrases which the Baboo coins by the score. He has a marvellous memory for English idioms, and a marvellous genius for mixing them up. He says: "The house presented a second Babel, or a pretty kettle of fish," and congratulates himself on the eloquence of the expression. If any one will read that most interesting book, India in 1983 [sic], he will see a perfectly correct representation of Baboo English. W. H. D. R.

What authority is there for supposing that the women ran about in Nature's garb at the Lupercalia? It was the youths, and they wore a goatskin. W. H. D. R.