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is rather bare in pseudonyms of the eigh- teenth century. It would be an excellent thing if the readers of ' N. & Q.' would assist in compiling a more adequate list. Here are a few of the most familiar that I have jotted down from time to time :

Jemmy Twitcher=John, fourth Earl of Sandwich.

Malagrida= William, second Earl of Shel- burne.

Tom Tilbury = Robert, first Earl of North- ington.

Sir Bullface Doublefee= Fletcher Norton, first Baron Grantley.

Squire Gawkey = Richard, first Earl Temple.

Dr. Squintum= George Whitefield.

Squinting Jack = John Wilkes.

JBlopmsbury Dick = Richard Rigby.

Serjeant Circuit = Serjeant Whitaker.

Cocking George = George Onslow.

Squire Morgan = Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland.

Mungo = Jeremiah Dyson.

The Cub = Charles James Fox.

The Priest of Nature = David Williams.

The Macaroni Parson = Dr. William Dodd and John Home Tooke.

Admiral Sternpost= Harry Paulet, sixth Duke of Bolton.

Foul- weather Jack = Admiral Sir John Nor r is.

Becky and Cowslip =Mrs. Wells.

Perdita=Mrs. Robinson.

Dally the Tall = Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliot, Elliott, or Eliot. The last form of the name is undoubtedly the best, as I have just found it in the inscription on her hus- band's tomb.

Miss Romp=Mrs. Jordan.

The Bird of Paradise = Mrs. Mahon.

The White Crow=Mrs. Corbyn.

The White S wan = Mrs. Irvince.

These are all very well known, but there must be dozens that are almost forgotten. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Fox Oak, Hersham, Surrey.

" WANGTJN " : ITS ETYMOLOGY. This term is well known in Canada. ' The Century Dictionary ' defines it thus :

" Wangun, a place for keeping small supplies or reserve stock ; especially the chest in a lumber- camp containing clothing, shoes, tobacco, &c., which
 * are sold to the men."

Yet in Bartlett's ' Dictionary of American- isms ' a wangun is said to be a boat used by lumbermen for carrying provisions, tools, .&c. Neither dictionary gives any ety- mology, which is a pity, as directly we know the origin of the word we can under-

stand how it came to have these two differ- ent senses. Wangun is abbreviated from the Montagnais Indian noun atawangan, which is from the verb atawan, to buy or sell. The Cree and Odjibwa Indians have a similar noun, atawdgan, which Lacombe, in his Cree dictionary, defines very neatly as " ce dont on se sert pour acheter ou pour vendre." The connexion between the wangun box and the wangun boat is that both are used for trading purposes.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

" LEAD HIS OWN HOUSE." I often hear this saying in application to home matters. The head of the house likes to " lead his own horse " to some extent in its affairs ; and the stay-at-home man who prefers his own fireside to that in the ale-house likes to " lead his own horse " = stay at home. And so on in other things domestic which do not trench upon the woman's rights in the home domain. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

' N.E.D.' : A WRONG REFERENCE. In- accuracies are so rare in this great under- taking that it is perhaps worth noting even a small one. The Shakespearian quo- tation s.v. ' Eternal,' A. 3. b, is represented as coming from ' Macbeth.' The correct reference is 1602, Shaks., ' Ham.,' I. v. 21. L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

"EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE."- In its review on 15 March of Mr. W. H. Craig's ' Life of Lord Chesterfield ' The Times observed :

" Sir Robert Walpole did not say, as Mr. Craig seems to suppose, that every man has his price. He said something quite different and quite true ' most of these men have their price,' and he pointed to a group which did not include Chester- field. ' Neither money nor place,' as Mr. Craig observes, 'would buy Lord Chesterfield.'"

And in a notice of ' The Irish Parliament, 1775,' on 12 April it repeated this statement, saying :

" As we pointed out in a recent review, Walpole never said that 'every' man had his price; but, looking at the detailed list drawn up by Blaquiere, one is inclined to think that few members or the Irish Parliament of 1775 were not open to bribes."

But whence comes this certainty as to what Walpole said or did not say ? When, and in what circumstances, was first recorded