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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io<" s. m. JUNE 24, 1905.

Queen's," that has direct and longer associa- tion with the site. A familiar identification in London dramatic history is more likely to suit popular nomenclature, and although there is a record of melodrama and com- parative failure belonging to this name, good management would soon alter that.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road.

LINES ON A MUG (10 th S. iii. 228, 353, 435). I am rather in the dark as to MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL'S reference to the lines : Oh, don't the day seem limp and long When all goes right and nothing wrong !

Does he suggest that this couplet is to be found engraved on any mug? It, of course, irresistibly reminds one of W. 8. Gilbert's quatrain :

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong ! And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at !

This was sung in ' Princess Ida,' produced at the Savoy Theatre. 5 January, 1 884.

S. J. A. F.

GHOST- WORDS (10 th S. iii. 405). Miss LEGA- WEEKES is certainly correct as to a ghost- word which a former writer in 'N. & Q.' has made from something he did not understand in a sixteenth-century parish register. The phrase " Almain rivets," in various spellings, is of frequent occurrence in lists of armour, both personal and parochial. As an example: in the inventory of the goods of John Nevell, of Faldingworth, gentleman, taken in the seventh year of Edward VI., there occurs among the " Harnesse " a " pare of alamyne revytts," valued at two shillings. In a quotation from Stow's ' Survey,' given in Southey's 'Commonplace Book,' mention is made of "billmen in almain rivets." The editor, the Rev. John Wood Warter, said in a note that he did not know what they were (vol. iv. p. 117). EDWARD PEACOCK.

SOUTHWOLD CHURCH : FIGURES AND EM- BLEMS (10 th S. iii. 329, 369, 453). The small figures in St. Raphael's apron or sheet are souls. The emblem occurs on a brass at Chekendon, Oxon, and elsewhere.

The symbolical significance of the crossed stole is not that of a sacrificial priest, or angels would not wear it, but the stole repre- sents the yoke of Christ, and, when crossed, the cords that bound Him. The stole was, and still is, worn crossed under the chasuble in the English Church, and it is made of extra length to allow for the crossing and that the ends may be passed through the

girdle and show beneath the chasuble, as in- numerous brasses. At Horsham, Sussex ; Upwell, Norfolk ; and Sudborough, North- ants, are brasses of priests in copes showing the crossed stole, as they would appear in a procession before mass.

HENRY E. FRANKS. Rye, Sussex.

" I SIT WITH MY FEET IN A BROOK" (10 th S.

iii. 408). These lines appear in H. S. Leigh's 'Jeux d'Esprit ' as a "remarkably happy attempt at bouts rime's, by Horace Walpole." The version there given is as follows : 1 sits with my feet in a brook ;

And if any one asks me for why, I hits him a lick with my crook, And says, " Sentiment kills me," says I.

D. 0. I.

It is, I should say, forty years since I saw and read these lines, and then it was in the 'Wit and Humour' page of The Family/ Herald. The lines ran :

I sits with my feet in a brook, An' if any one axes me why, I hits 'em a rap with my crook Because I chooses, ses I.

Some of us thought them so good that for a long time we were not tired of repeating them. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

LOCAL 'NOTES AND QUERIES' (10 th S. iii. 108, 255, 393). The Bolton Journal and Guardian commenced a column of notes and queries on 20 January last. It deals only with local matter, and is increasingly popular. CLIO-.

Bolton.

DRYDEN'S SISTERS (10 th S. iii. 288, 377). Elizabeth Dryden married Sir Richard 1 Philipps, who was a great - grandson of Henry VIII. through his natural son Sir John Perrott, Kt., of Harolston. Sir Richard and Lady Philipps ultimately became the great-grandparents of Catherine Shorter, afterwards Lady Walpole.

LEOPOLD A. VIDLEE.

The Stone House, Rye.

HUMAN SACRIFICES : GHOSTS (10 th S. iii. 448). It might also be asked, What is the meaning of the tangible clanking chain frequently accompanying the restless spectre? Marley's ghost, with his fetters of cash- boxes, proved an angel of good to his partner Scrooge. As to headless sprites, some of the Gabriel hounds were decapitated. Puck threatens to dog the honest theatrical " rude mechanicals " (' Midsummer Night's Dream ') as a headless bear, amongst other Protean