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 ii s. xii. OCT. 2, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Wonder, no.

1. " Na wondir, this is the selcouth Caribdis " (Lat., Nimirum haec ilia Charybdis). iii. 153.

2. " We haue bot sober p[u]issance, and no wonder." viii. 184.

Work, v., to rage. " [The blude] Furth ruschis out of workand woundis wyde." xi. 58.

World, for all the.

Sic ene had he, and sic fair handis tway,

For all the warld, sic mouth and face, perfay.

iii. 149.

Wi/ssJU, to exchange. " ]This lyfe .... to wyssill." ix. 225.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

8, Mornington Crescent, N.W.

VERSES BY JAMES SMITH. Of the books left by Charles Barwell Coles (see 11 S. i. 90, under ' " Short Whist," by Major A.') to my brother, only three came to me, and two of them have been lost in changes of abode. The remaining one is ' Rejected Addresses,' 18th edition, and in it is pasted a sheet of paper with the following verses and heading in Mr. Coles' s handwriting. He evidently copied them in his old age, for " Garrick " is written " Garicth," and another slip of the pen occurs in the thirteenth line, where " blunder " is written " blund."

Jeu d'Esprit dictated after Dinner at the Garrick

Club by James Smith ('Rejected

Addresses ') to C. B. C.

An artist painted Time and Love Time with two pinions spread above, And Love without a feather- Just when Sir Hal and Lady Anne In wedlock came together. Copies of each the Dame bespoke ; The artist ere he drew a stroke Reversed his old opinions, And straitway [sic] to the lady brings Time in his turn devoid of wings, And Cupid with two pinions. " What blunder 's this ?" the lady cries. " No blunder, madam," he replies, " I hope I 'm not so stupid ; Each has his pinions in his day : Time before marriage flies away, And after marriage Cupid."

If these verses are not extant in James Smith's literary remains, they may be of interest. EDWARD NICHOLSON.

Les Cycas, Cannes.

LIGHTNING FOLK-LORE. In your interest- ing notice of Konkan folk-lore (ante, p. 210) you remark that it has been said that the mentality of the Orient and the Occident was the same till the Renaissance. This reminds me that among the children in D3vonshire thirty years ago it was regarded a 3 unlucky to draw one another's attention to lightning. W. CURZON YEO.

Richmond, Surrey.

ALCESTER. (See ' An Alphabet of Stray Notes/ US. xi. 261, 369.) Apparently Alcester used to be spelt by some writers Aulcester ; see :

1. 'Index Villaris,' by J. Adams, 1680.^

2. ' An Index to the Records,' 1739,, p. 100, s.v. Alauna.

3. Stephen Whatley's ' England's Gazet- teer,' 1751.

In the above Aulcester is tie only form, excepting that in Latin in No. 2.

4. Gough's Camden's ' Britannia,' 1789 : "Aulcester, called by Matthew Paris more

properly Allencest.tr, which the inhabitants affirm to have been a most famous and antient town,, whence they will have it to have been Ouldcester,"' Vol. ii. p. 329.

5. W. C. Oulton's 'Traveller's Guide," 1805 : "Alcester, Aulcester, or Allencester."

On the other hand, there are old instances of Alcester only, e.g. John Ecton's ' Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum,' 1742, p. f,85.

There is a lamentable tendency nowadays to pronounce all names according to th& spelling. I think that I have been told that Cirencester is losing its old pronuncia- tion. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

' PUNCH ' : ITS PAGINATION. It may b& well to place on record for bibliographical purposes the fact that faulty pagination exists in our national periodical of humour. Vol. iii., 1842, has no pages numbered 55-56- or 77-78. In vol. v., 1843, pp. 185-194; vol. x., 1846, pp. 187-196 ; and vol. xiii. r pp. 171-180, are also non-existent. Vols. ii. r iv., vi., viii., begin paging at 13 ; the almanacs for 1842-5 form 12 pages, but these- have no pagination.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

FEATHER - BEDS. If any reader of ' N. & Q.' be interested in feather-beds, h& may be glad to know of the following quaint entry, which occurs under ' custus domorum ' in the Winchester College Accounts of 1464-5 :

" Et solutis cuidam laboranti per iiii dies circa- reparacionem iii lectorum plumalium de stauro- Coliegii ac separanti le plu' a plumis et facienti de eisdem i cervical et iiii pulvinaria, cum ii-s. vid. pro v. virgatis de Fustian emptis ad idem opus, vii.s. vid."

H. C.

CAPT. CHARLES GORDON OF THE CHESA- PEAKE. I think naval historians may like to know that Capt. Gordon of the Chesa- peake (38 guns), which was attacked off Norfolk, Virginia, in 1807 by H.M.S. Leopard under circumstances which led to his fighting a duel and being court-martialled, was the