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with crudely coloured but telling illustrations. We had also a ' Book of Trades,' uniform with these last, each trade described in verse, with a woodcut coloured as above. For instance, ' The Mill ' :

Blew, wind, blow, and go mill, go,

That the miller may grind his corn,

That the baker may take it, and into rolls make it,

And bring us some hot in the morn.

This we associated with three windmills then daily going within a mile, but now extinct, and Mr. Winn, the baker, bringing hot rolls for breakfast, well wrapped up in green baize, in a large square basket. Alas ! we never see such " hot rolls " now.

A little later came ' Elements of Practical Knowledge,' in the form of question and answer, from which I learned many things that I have never forgotten ; and a little later still, perhaps, it was that a kind uncle gave me ' Peter Parley's Tales about Animals,' published by Thomas Tegg, 7th ed., 1838, with really good woodcuts. From this book I got my first ideas of animals with which I was not otherwise acquainted. The ' Tales ' are not stories, but excellent descriptions, with anecdotes where they would best come in. Thus, under " The Tiger," we have not only a most lifelike illustration of the prowling beast, but two anecdotes, with woodcuts, one of a lady having the presence of mind to frighten a tiger away by suddenly pushing open her umbrella " when he was about to spring." " The animal," it seems, " shrunk back in fear, and disappeared in the forest, thus leaving the affrighted company in safety." We are also told how a tigress that had escaped from a menagerie sprang upon the horses of the mail coach on Salisbury Plain, but was driven off, and afterwards secured. The woodcut is very lifelike. There is also a striking picture of a leopard about to be caught in a trap " baited " with a mirror. Thus we were agreeabty led on from the lion to the polypes. We formed an early acquaintance with some parts of the Bible itself, as well as with the Prayer-book, and the hymn-book then used at church. ' Robin- son Crusoe ' interested me about this time. I must not forget to mention that, at a very early period, I got to know the successive styles of Church architecture, from " Early English " or " Lancet " to " Perpendicular." We had plenty of real " Lancet," and of the earliest forms of tracery, as well as two fine windows of " Flowing Decorated," in the church. And in my father's study, which was our school-room, still hangs a ' West Elevation of York Minster.' There I noted

" Geometrical " low down, " Flowing " higher- up, and " Perpendicular " at the top. We had " Saxon " in the church steeple here,, but I did not make acquaintance with " Norman " till later.

I was very early interested in both garden and wild flowers, and knew many by name. Once I picked up a clean sheep's skull in a field, and took it to my father, who showed me the holes where the optic, auditory, and olfactory nerves went through to the brain ; indeed, he taught us to find many " books," besides those that were in print, and now,

Whatever way my days decline, I felt and feel, though left alone, His being working in mine own,

The footsteps of his lite in mine.

'In Memoriam,' Ixxxv.

J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

[Some interesting particulars relating to ' Chick- seed without Chickweed' are supplied at 11 S. x. 366, 418.]

INSCRIPTIONS IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH,. ST. JOHN'S WOOD ROAD.

ABSTRACTS of the inscriptions marked with an asterisk have already been given in? ' A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-bone (1833),' by Thomas Smith ; but as that work is not accessible to every one, and as the compiler does not always give full details, they are repeated here. He also gives the names of many persons buried in the adjoining cemetery, with the year of burial. Nos. 16 and 37, being placed high up in a bad light,, I could make nothing of, but the inscription of No. 37, is taken from Mr. Smith's book. He, unfortunately, does not give No. 16. These abstracts were made in July, 1911.

WEST SIDE.

1. John Josiah Holford, Esq., of York Place, Portman Square, and Kilgwyn, Carmarthen, d. July 29, 1836, a. 71. Jane Margaret, his wife, d. Jan. 6, 1830, a. 61. Four of their children and two of their grandchildren, who died in

nfancy, are buried in the same vault. Their second son, John J. Holford, jun., B.N., is juried in the Protestant burying-ground in Genoa. Arms : Quarterly, 1 and 4, a greyhound aassant ; 2 and 3, a lion rampant regardant. 3n an escutcheon of pretence : On a chevron Jetween three (lions' ?) heads erased, three roses ?). Crest : A greyhound's head couped.

2. Susannah Maria, wife of the late Lieut-Col. Flint of the 21st Begiment of Foot, d. Feb. 18, - 1825, a. 63. Erected by her only surviving son- and daughter.