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Kyd, Thos. 23 quotations, two untraced. ' E.P." left one of Kyd's quotations unsigned, and it wrongly assigns to him nine lines which have been found in Sylvester's ' Babylon.' One of Collier's references to Kyd is imaginary, and another is doubtful.

C. CRAWFORD. (To be concluded.)

BYRON'S ' BRIDE or ABYDOS.' I have a copy of the first edition of ' The Bride of Abydos,' which is at present unknown, and may possibly be unique. It differs from the known first edition, as described in Coleridge's ' Poetical Works of Lord Byron,' vol. vii. p. 172, in that it has a slip inserted between the leaf containing the Dedication and the text, as follows :

ERRATA

Line 300, Canto I. For " is it me ? " read " is it I ? " Omitted, Canto II. page 47, after line 449, " So that those arms cling closer round my neck

READ

" The deepest murmur of this lip shall be " No sigh for safety, but a prayer for thee !

Mr. Murray, the publisher, to whom I showed the book, and who was so kind as to try to throw some light on the matter, came to the conclusion that it must be an earlier edition. Mr. Coleridge says (I.e.) : " Canto II. 724 lines (not, as numbered, 722 lines, line 492 being numbered 490)." I think my copy will explain this error : when the lines named in the Erratum were added, the printer forgot to place " 490 " in its proper place. N. HERZ.

18, Darnley Road, Hackney, N.E.

LYNCH LAW. The compilers of the ',N.E.D.' say that the origin of this expres- sion has not been determined, but that it refers to acts of a kind which " from 1817 onward " have been so designated. It is somewhat remarkable that, with the ana- logies of the words " boycott " and " burke before them, the compilers do not in any way refer to the case of the Irishman Lynchy, the date of which was 1816. The facts of the case were as follows. One Lynchy prosecuted three men for burglary, and they were convicted and executed. By way of revenge on Lynchy for this prosecu- tion,

" a body of men, supposed to amount to forty, and well mounted, rode up to his dwelling, which they surrounded ; and without a single com- punction at the indiscriminate destruction in which they were about to involve so many, they set fire to this unfortunate man's house, and destroyed, in this diabolical deed, not only

Lynchy and his son-in-law Rooney, but his wife, two children, two servant maids, and two young men." ' Annual Register,' 1816, p. 175.

M.

CHILDREN'S GAMES IN ORKNEY. The following is a list of the games played on the street or in the playground here. The full list was made up from information supplied by the several members of one of my classes, most of whom belong to the town, though a few are from the country and the South Isles.

1. A cock and a hen for the master's supper.

2. A mile a minute.

3. As I was going up a hill.

4. Black man.

5. Bowler (rounders).

6. Burn the biscuit, Crack the biscuit, The cakes.

are burning.

7. Buffets.

8. Change-a, change a sixpence.

9. Colours.

10. Dedi [i.e. Daddy] Dumpling.

11. Double legs.

12. Down by yonder meadows.

13. Drunk men and bobbies.

14. English and French.

15. Follow the leader.

16. Fox and the geese.

17. Fringe and fair.

18. Funny.

19. Ghost in the press.

20. Gunboats and trawlers.

21. Hammering the nail.

22. Hares and hounds.

23. Here's two ladies seeking a trade.

24. Hide and seek.

25. Hunt the thimble.

26. Horny, long.

27. Horny, short.

28. Isle of Man.

29. Joyce, Joyce, Royalty.

30. Keeping the castle.

31. Kick the bucket, Kick the tinnie.

32. King Caesar. [Probably a corruption of " King, seize *er."]

33. Li-vo. [Leave, oh I]

34. Leeky.

35. Moon in the dark.

36. Picka (Sitting p. and cross p.)

37. Poachers.

38. Policemen's strides.

39. Puggy.

40. Pussy corner.

41. Railway track.

42. Revenge.

43. Scalp hunters.

44. Shepherd's good warning.

45. Shoe the horse.

46. Smuggle the gage.

47. Storming the castle.

48. Tail-a-hooky.

49. Three holes.

50. Three times round went the gallant, gallant ship.

51. Throw the handkerchief.

52. Touch.

53. When I am a lady.

54. Zig-zag. ALEX. RUSSELL.