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 n s. vii. mae. i5, wis.] .NOTES AND QUERIES. 215 White Horses (11 S. vii. 109).—I am rather sceptical as to the alleged cause of the preponderance of white horses in Paris, for, if my memory serves me truly, there was a preponderance of white horses before the siege. I have not been to Paris since, so I cannot make any comparative estimate. J. Foster Palmer. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W. I remember an old country rime :— One white foot—buy him ; Two white feet—try him ; Three white feet—look well about him ; Four white feet—try to do without him. Wm. H. Peet. [For horses with white feet see 9 S. vi. 407 ; vii' 111,193; x. 116.] Reference of Quotation Wanted (11 S vii. 90, 156).—The first passage occurs in Oliver Goldsmith's essay ' History of the Distresses of an English Disabled Soldier.' I quote from Dove's ' English Classics,' London, 1826, p. 115. Frank Curry. No Twin ever Famous (11 S. v. 487 ; vi. 58, 172, 214, 433; vii. 54).—The twin brothers, Lewis Gaylord Clark and Willis Gaylord Clark, were born in Otisco, Onondaga County, N.Y., in 1810. In 1832 The Knickerbocker Magazine was established in New York ; but it was not successful till Lewis Gaylord Clark became its editor, in 1834, when it soon took the foremost position among the literary pub- lications of the United States, and wielded a powerful and healthy influence upon American literature. Irving, Paulding, Bry- ant, Dana, Halleck, Percival, Seward, Cooper, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, Willis, Dickens, L. E. Landon, Fanny Kemble, and many other well-known authors, were Clark's contributors and correspondents. It was in a letter from Dickens to Clark that the former first mentioned his proposed visit to America. At Clark's the novelist spent his first evening after arriving at New York, and some days later, at a dinner given at the same house, Mrs. Dickens expressed her home-sickness and regret that she had ever left England. The Knickerbocker Magazine died in 1859 from financial mismanagement. Clark accepted a position at the New York Custom House, but continued his con- tributions to periodical literature till his death, 3 Nov., 1873. Willis Gaylord Clark, the twin brother, in 1830 commenced to publish a weekly periodical in Philadelphia which was short- lived ; he next became, for a brief period, an associate editor of The Columbian Star, a religious newspaper, from which he retired to take charge of The Philadelphia Gazette, the oldest daily paper of that city. Of the last he was proprietor at the time of his death, 12 June, 1841. His contributions to The Knickerbocker Magazine, with other prose and poetical writings by him, were published in 1844, with a memoir by his brother Louis, in a volume named ' Literary Remains.' Edward Denham. New Bedford, Mass. ' Vicar of Bray ': " Pudding-time " (11 S. vii. 149).—The phrase "in pudding- time " means " late, but not too late," as he who arrives in time for the pudding gets some of the dinner. An example of it occurs in Sir Walter Besant's pseudo- antique novel ' Dorothy Forster,' when in chap. xiii. the heroine is made to say :— " Had it not been for this munificent gift, which came in pudding-time, so to speak, I should have gone to Dilston crying instead of laughing, because my petticoats were so short and my best frock so shabby." The line in ' The Vicar of Bray ' probably refers to the Jacobite conspiracy which nearly succeeded in restoring the Stuarts at Queen Anne's death. M. H. Dodds. According to Halliwell, "in pudding- time " means in the nick of time, at the commencement of dinner, it having formerly been usual to begin with pudding. The following quotation from Hudibras' is given in illustration :— But Mars, who still protects the stout, In pudding-time came to his aid. I. n. 8oo. Bladud. " Pudding-time " is, figuratively, a favour- able time. See the ' N.E.D.,' s.v., for definition and instances. C. C. B. [Mr. F. Newman and Miss M. Ellen Poole also thanked for replies.] Earldom of Somerset in the Mohun Family (11 S. vii. 130, 196). — William de Mohun, being with the Empress Maud at Westminster in June, 1141, is said to have been made Earl of Dorset by her, though it appears that he was already an earl. He called himself Earl of Somerset, but the close connexion then existing between the two shires renders this apparent discrepancy of no importance. A son William succeeded him, but did not, as far as is known, bear the title of earl. The latter's grandson, Reginald de Mohun, the founder of Newen- ham Abbey, Devon, according to a curious