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 238 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. SEPT. ie. m destroy their combs and neats Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cata; and Col. Newman says, ' Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than else- where, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large num- bers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!" ST. SWITHIN. BALLAD : SPANISH LADY'S LOVE FOE AN ENGLISHMAN (10th S. iv. 107, 153).— In addition to the information given at the last reference I may refer your correspondent to the note contained in vol. ii. p. 247 of Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,' ed. by Mr. Wheatley, 1889, which quotes at length the information given by my father, Charles Lee, a descendant of the Sir John Bolle, in a letter to The Times of 1 May, 1846. I am unaware of any claimants other than those referred to in Mr. Wheatley's note. If S. A. should not have access to the above book, I shall be pleased to send him a copy of the note in question. A. COLLINUWOOD LEE. Waltham Abbey. CRICKET: PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS v 10th S. iv. 9, 132).—I have a cream-ware bowl, maker Wedgwood (name on base), and dated 1796. The diameter is 11 in., the height 4| in. It was made by Wedgwood for John Durand, of Carshalton, Surrey, son of John Durand, of Woodcote, Wallington, Surrey, and by him presented to the then Carshalton Cricket Club. Mr. Durand was an enthusiast with regard to the game. Like many another cricket club, that at Carshalton fell upon evil days. Its headquarters used to be the "Greyhound Hotel," and there its property •was kept. The members falling into arrears for dinners, &c., the hotel-keeper became possessed of the goods of the club, the bowl among them. From a descendant of the hostess (it was a landlady), one Wayte or Waite, who was for many years parish clerk of Carshalton, my father, the late Rev. Alfred Barrett, D.D., obtained the bowl. This must have been about 1865 or 1866. Since 1887 it has been in my possession. The inner rim of the bowl (which is perfectly plain) has a painted border — vine-leaves, bunches of grapes, and tendrils in proper colours— between two deep chocolate bands. On the outside of the bowl is one group of flowers and fruit, gaudy and by no means well executed in colour. The base of the bowl inside has a 6-inch medallion, in which there is a now unfortunately very much damaged representation of a game of cricket. This is surrounded by a wreath. A segment of the circle is cut off, and bears the initials J. D. and the date 1796. The peculiarity is that three-stump, and not two-stump cricket is represented, and it is (so I understood from Mr. Willett) the earliest representation of the modern double-wicket game known on pottery. The players wear tall hats and knee-breeches, and the bats are club shape. Two spectators, in red and blue coats, three- cornered hats, and silks, recline in the fore- ground. In my 'Surrey: Highways, Byways, and Waterways' (pp. 30 and 31), I figured the bowl and the medallion. Mr. Willett told me that there were only (1895) two ceramic representations of eighteenth-century cricket known, and that my bowl was one. C. k B. BARRETT. Wandsworth. In the early days of The Illustrated London New» (about 1843) there were portraits of celebrated cricketers of those times—as Pilch, Box, Lillywhite, and the Mynns. There is also a fine coloured engraving depicting the ' Eleven of England' in days when cricket was played in top hats. No one seems as yet to have referred to the famous cricket match, Dingley Dell against All Muggleton, in the 'Pickwick Papers'(the date probably 1830), and to the scarce print of it inserted in some editions of that work. JOHN PICKFORD, MJL NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac. Bu>ra«n in the Clastic*, including ' Alia.' By Hugh E. P. Platt, M.A. (Oxford, BUckwell.) EMBOLDENED by the success of his 'Alia,' Mr.Platt has issued a more comprehensive little volume.for which a friend suggested the panning title of ' Mor[e]ciliii.' It is an enchanting opuscule, which the scholar may carry in his pocket, and to which lie may turn with the certainty of entertainment. Not easy is it to give a full idea of the treat pro- vided. To some extent the work is a collection of ]>assages in Greek and Latin, parallel with there employed by moderns. Ax such it furnishes object' for the objurgation of *-Klius Donatns, "Pereant illi qui ante DOS nostra dixerunt." Sometime* ini-i !• anticipation of a well-known phrase is given, as when Quand on n'a pas ce qu'on aime II taut aimer ce qu'on a is traced, among others, to Menander and Terence, or " Who knows or cares ? " is found in th» Ciceronian observation, " Quis ant scit aut curat' Sometimes we find familiar, but not too accessible jokes, as- See. ladling butter from a pair of [alternate?] tubs, Stubbs butters Freeman, Freeman butters Stubb*. for which a species of suggestion is found ia