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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. m. FEB. n, 1911.

Is it St. Bernard of Clairvaux who sa,id, " Dicitur certe vulgar! quodam proverbio : Qui me amat, amat et canem meum " ? (St. Bernard, ' In Festo S. Michaelis, Sermo Primus, sect. iii. p. 102 b, vol. i., Parisiis, 1719, fol.)

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

For MB. BBESLAB'S information (ante, p. 62) I make the following extracts from Chambers' s Encyclopaedia ' : " Wolves can readily be tamed when taken young, and then exhibit all the characteristics of domestic dogs " ; also : " The wolf's natural voice is a loud howl, but when confined with dogs it will learn to bark." N. W. HILL.

WET HAY (US. ii. 469, 535 ; iii. 53). At the last reference a valued contributor to * N. & Q.' waxes facetious over the idea of wet hay being ever found in a dog-kennel. He fails to remember that ladies' lapdogs and shepherds' collies form but a small portion of the canine family ; that kennels such as those of the Beaufort and Quorn hunts were unknown at the time when Webster wrote his drama ; and that the saying " to live a dog's life anu die a dog's death " has become a kind of proverb expressive of the acme of human misery.

SCOTUS.

Hay is often damped for horses which have bad wind, to lay the dust present in almost all hay. Many people also sprinkle water on the oats or crushed beans.

GALFBID K. CONGBEVE.

Vermilion, Alberta.

[MB. M. L. R. BBESLAB also thanked for reply.]

IBISH BOOK OF REMEMBBANCE (11 S. iii. 70).

"In 1783 Mr. J. Fitzgerald published the first 4 Cork Remembrancer'; in 1792 Mr. A. Edwards published the second ; the present attempt is the third. We believe our city has furnished the only examples of such compilations."

[ take this extract from the preface to ' The Cork Remembrancer,' by Francis H. Tuckey, 8vo, pp. ex. + 352,' Cork, 1837, which has " a list of subscribers printed at the beginning." Could any of these be the work sought for by MB. ROBEBTS CBOW ? EDITOB ' IBISH BOOK LOVEB.'

BELFAST REGISTEBS (US. iii. 70). I am afraid there are no registers of Belfast going back as far as 1677. The first Presby- terian Church was founded in 1672, but the first volume of its baptismal register has been

missing since 1790, and has been advertised for several times without result. The second volume, commencing in 1757, is in existence, and has been printed in ' Historic Memorials of the First Presbyterian Church ' (Belfast, 1877, 4to), by Principal Gordon, now of Manchester. The parish church dates only from 1774. In R. M.^Young's ' Town Book ' (Belfast, 1892, 8vo) the names are given of the leading citizens in 1677, and they may perhaps be of assistance to your correspondent.

EDITOB * IBISH BOOK LOVEB.' Kensal Lodge, N.W.

EUSEBY CLEAVEB, ABCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN (US. ii. 489; iii. 53). See Misc. Gen. et HeraL, vol. ii. pp. 304-5, where the Arch- bishop's mother is given as Martha Lettice of Lushden, Northants no doubt a daughter of the Rev. John Lettice, who was Rector of Rushden in 1719. H. HOUSTON BALL.

ROGEBSON COTTEB (11 S. ii. 489 ; iii. 53) was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 2 August, 1766. His name appears in the ' Dublin Directory ' for 1794, but not afterwards, as of Grattan Street, Dublin, and Mallow, co. Cork. He married in 1794 Jane, widow of William Grady, and daughter of Richard Harrold of Limerick.

H. HOUSTON BALL.

' A VOICE FBOM THE BUSH '(US. iii. 48). This piece was included in the "Miscel- laneous " section of ' Poems by the late Adam Lindsay Gordon,' which was published by A. H. Massina & Co. of Melbourne in 1884. There is some doubt whether all the pieces in this " Miscellaneous " section were from the pen of Gordon. The poem was not printed by him in the slim volume of ' Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes ' which was published at Melbourne in 1870. It un- doubtedly seems to reflect the unfortunate attitude of mind into which Gordon fell during his later years. The London pub- lisher of the book was Samuel Mullen, 48, Paternoster Row, and it frequently appears in second-hand booksellers' catalogues. The poem consists of fifteen stanzas, of which the first runs as follows :

High noon, and not a cloud in the sky

To break this blinding sun. Well, I've half the day before me still,

And most of my journey done. There's little enough of shade to be got,

But I'll take what I can get, For I'm not so hearty as once I was,

Although I'm a young man yet.

W. F. PBIDEAUX.