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was said to be beleaguered. Nathaniel Bailey in his ' Dictionary ' (1740) says, s.v. 'Leaguer,' one concerned in the League or Confederacy in France, in the time of Henry III. and Henry IV. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

" ONE SHOE OFF AND ONE SHOE ON " (10 S.

ix. 270 ; xi. 434). An apposite story con- cerning St. Columba is told in Chambers's Journal for June, p. 371, ' Protests and Survivals : a Study in Popular Lore ' being the name of the article in which it is imbedded.

" The importance of such a simple act as putting on both stockings before either of your shoes was easily accounted for. When Columba of the Churches one day put on his left shoe before his right foot was covered, was he not forced to flee for his life for miles along the shingle with only one boot on, and his right foot cut as with knives, leaving a track of blood behind him ? And was not that warning enough for all ? "

Stern common sense urges me to remark that, as half a loaf is better than no bread, it may be worse to walk over shingle bootless than to have only one foot exposed to injury. ST. SWITHIN.

A game which we called " pulls," about sixty years ago was played in this fashion. Two were chosen as leaders or captains. These then " footed it," and the winner had first pick in making up the opposing sides, picking in turn from those joining in the game : girls, if they liked, were admitted. When the opposing sides were made up the leaders took off the left shoe to enable them to hold the ground better. A line was marked, and when each side had coupled up by clasping the arms round the waist, one behind the other, the pull began, and the side which pulled the leader clean over the mark, won. The right shoe was kept on to prevent each leader from treading on the other's toes. It is more than fifty years since I saw lads at this game.

There was a romping round sort of pastime in which all joined in, sing-songing,

Diddle diddle, dumplin',

My son John :

One shoe off an' one shoe on,

Went to bed wi' his stockin's on.

But this had no relation to the pull-over-the- mark game. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

EDOUARD OB EDOUART : SILHOUETTE PORTRAITS (10 S. ix. 191 ; xi. 371). To the two articles given at the latter reference adc The English Illustrated Magazine for Sept. 1899. I have all three, and shall be pleasec

to lend them to your correspondent if he is

unable to see them. The above magazine

'or 1890 (July) contains a reproduction of

he silhouette of Monsieur Edouart, also the

lilhouettes of Daniel O'Connell, Signer

Paganini, &c., taken from the ' Treatise on

Silhouette Likenesses,' by Edouart, men-

ioned by MR. BALL, and also referred to

in the article under consideration.

Augustin Constance Fidele Edouart, to cerque in 1788, and after finding his way to London as a refugee, married, in 1816, Emilie Laurence Vital. By this marriage e had two sons and two daughters. The ilder of the two sons, the Rev. Augustin Jaspard Edouart, M.A., was incumbent of St. Michael's, Burleigh Street, Strand, and Chaplain of the Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1859, and in 1890 was Vicar of Leominster. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.
 * ive him his full name, was born at Dun-

48, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

ST. DAVID: " TAFFY-ON-A-STICK " (10 S. xi. 327). MR. GRID LAND EVANS'S communi- cation regarding the derivation of the words " Taffy " and " toffee " must be received with great caution at the least. The two words have no connexion. The former is an ordinary Welshman's pronunciation of the word David, and is accepted in England as a generic term for Welshmen, just as Sandy is a generic term for Scotchmen. " Toffee " is most probably connected with the word " tough." " Taffy-on-a-stick " must not be taken to be an international gibe without proof. FRANK PENNY.

HARBOURS (10 S. xi. 409, 452). See (1) Le Moult's ' Guide to all known Harbours of the Globe' (Hamburg, 1902, 2 vols.) ; (2) Lehnert, Holeczek, and Cicalek's ' Sea- Ports of the World-commerce' (Vienna, 1889-91, 2 vols.); (3) Laroche's 'Port Maritimes ' (Paris, 1893, 2 vols.). H. KREBS.

MARGARET POLE, COUNTESS OF SALISBURY (10 S. xi. 429). If E. S. S. refers to the chapters dealing with the reign of Henry VIII. in any good history of England he will find considerable information about this lady. All works dealing with Cardinal Reginald Pole must mention her, and no doubt she finds a place in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' A fair account of her career is given on p. 130 of Fisher's ' Companion and Key to the History of England ' (Simpkin & Marshall, 1832). As the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, the niece of Edward IV., the granddaughter of the