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NOTES AND QUERIES. fu s. IIL JAN. 21, 1911.

heroic deeds, and love of animals, flowers, and country scenes are the topics that I have in mind. Any help in my quest will be gratefully received.

JOHN GBAHAM,

Editor of Dialect Songs, Morris Dances, &c.

74, Park Hall Road, East Finchley, N.

' A VOICE FROM THE BUSH.' I am very anxious to obtain a copy of a poem called ' A Voice from the Bush.' I was told it was by Lindsay Gordon, but have been unable to find it. Could you tell me where it is to be found, or who is the author ?

MARGARET LAWRENCE. The Lawn, Windsor Road, Chorley, Lanes.

AMERICAN WORDS AND PHRASES. I con- clude from 10 S. xi. 469 ; xii. 107 ; 11 S. ii. 67, my list of words and phrases in American papers :

Read out. This means to turn a man out of a political party, the allusion being to a kind of excommunication. Was there ever among the Independents or others an actual " reading " of a person out of the society ?

Squab boat. What was this ? In 1800 I read of a " squab boat skipper."

Stansberry reproof. Who was Stansberry ? One man (1839) is determined to give another this kind of reproof, apparently a pistol-shot.

Stifel. A horse is said (1798) to be " narrow across the stifel." This looks mightily like a Holland word, but I do not find it in the Dutch dictionary.

Stocking feet, i.e., feet without shoes. Is this expression Scottish ?

Toe the mark. Are there any English examples before 1819 ?

Tunket. What is this ? The phrase " as cold

as a tunket " occurs in 1847. Tussey boys. What were they ? In 1838 Mr

Bynum of North Carolina used the phrase in

Congress. Unterrified, the. Who first applied this term

to the Democratic party ? Vicksburger. This was (1836) a large hat. Was

there a factory of such hats at Vicksburg ? W T hitehead. To do a thing like a whitehead was

(about 1830) to do it thoroughly. W 7 hat is th

allusion ? Whitewash. Are there English examples of this

verb in a figurative sense before 1762 ? In thai

year The Boston Evening Post alludes to a man

" lately whitewashed (taken the benefit of th

Bankrupt Act)." And in 1800 it means to

cleanse a character superficially. i r ork waggon. W T as this a waggon made a1

York in Pennsylvania ?

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

6 THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.' I wish to .earn the name of the author of the verses- entitled * The Flying Dutchman,' beginning

Before the screaming hurricane, the Dutchman

pitched and rolled ;

She staggered along to the storm's wild song And buried her decks the seas among,

Till the dawn brake bitterly cold.

Where may they be found ? C. B,

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. Who was the author of a piece of poetry in which the last line of every verse runs some- what as follows ?

0, never question curiously. The last verse is somewhat as follows :

I charge you, ye impassioned few, If the white swanwing comes to you, What is to you the whence or how ? Be happy in the blissful now ; Accept the light that glads thy brow, And never question curiously.

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Midway the road of our life's term they met, And one another knew without surprise,

Nor cared that beauty stood in mutual eyes, Nor at their tardy meeting nursed regret

C. L. H.

A touch of the sun for pardon,

The song of a bird for mirth ; We are nearer God's heart in the garden

Than anywhere else on the earth.

W. W. K.

HARTLEY WINTNEY, HANTS : PRIORESS MARTYN'S MONUMENT. The will of Eliza- beth Martyn, " sometime prioress of Wynt- ney," dated 24 July, 1584, and proved in the Peculiar Court of the Dean of Sarum (Register iv. fo. 147), directs that her body should be buried in the chancel of Hartley Wintney, and contains the following clause :

" I would that a stone should be layde over my grave w th a picture of a plate of a woman in a long garment w th wyde sieves hir handes ioyned together holdinge uppon her brest and figured over her hedd In te domine speraui non confundor in seternum In justicia tua libera me et salua me I woulde that an herse shoulde be standinge over my grave by the space of an whole yere couerued ouer w th black cotten w th a cross of white fusty on."

A sum of 10?. is left for conveying the body from Okingham.

Can any one say if these directions were carried out ? F. J. POPE.

17, Holland Road, W.