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seems to break down, in the case of what are known, as " buck-jumpers " possibly their crystalline lenses are abnormally flat and do not magnify enough. If so, spectacles might cure them of their antics ! But even if a horse's eyes do " magnify," they must have this effect on all objects in proportion, so that one horse would appear to another as larger than a man.

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

LARGEST BAG OF GAME FOR A DAY'S SHOOTING In Daniel's ' Rural Sports,' 1812, vol. iii. p. 88, it is stated that Prince Lichtenstein, and Eleven other Gentlemen* killed in one day, when they were out fourteen hours, 39,000 pieces of ganie ; it was of all sorts, but chiefly Hares and Partridges."
 * ' in Germany, during the month of October, 1797'

Has this statement ever been corroborated ? The figures are so gigantic that one wonders whether an extra may not have crept in !

It would also be interesting to know, in comparison, what is the largest bag of pheasants ever made in this country in a single day ; 3,012 pheasants have, I know, been killed by eight guns in one day in Scotland in November, 1911 but I believe this total has been eclipsed in England. Can any of your readers inform me ?

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

" LOKE." At Sprowston is an alley named Blake Loke, and at Cromer another termed simply Loke. What is a " loke " ?

M. W.

ROBERT BURD GABRIEL, D.D. This divine wa^ Rector of SS. Peter and Paul's, Harlington, from 1789 to 1805. He pre- sented a silver paten to the church in 1790, and repaired and altered the structure, when " there were a great many Brasses and in- scriptions taken away." There is a legend lingering in the village that he was obliged to vacate the living through some action of a " rackety " son. He is then said to have become Rector of Hamworth. Anything definite regarding the cause of his departure, also date of his demise, will be welcomed by

AITCHO.

REV. JOSEPH RANN. Information is sought as to ancestry and parentage of Rev Joseph Rann born 1732, died 1811. He was sometime Vicar of St. Mary's, Coventry He published an edition of Shakespeare, witl notes, in 6 vols., 1786-91. He is believed t< have belonged to a Birmingham family Any biographical or genealogical particular would be esteemed. R. CHESLETT.

105 Gipsy Hill, S.E.

"THREE A PENNY COLONELS." Some ears ago an ecclesiastic, suffering, appar- ntly, from odium parochiale, designated the hurchwardens of a neighbouring parish as

three a penny colonels." The gentlemen o described were retired military officers, an any one explain this phrase ? It may ave been evolved from the inner con- ciousness of the individual above mentioned, ut it may contain some literary allusion, r be a quotation. N. POWLETT, Col.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Who 7as the author of the following : " He who ives his life for king and country leaves laught undone that man can do " ?

H W.

CORRECT DESIGNATION OF WAR MINISTER.

Which is the correct expression " Secre- ary of State for War " or " Secretary of State at War " ? E. WEST.

[See 11 S. ix. 326, 374, 415.]

' ONCE A WEEK.' This periodical began Tuly, 1859. Will some one kindly tell me he date of its discontinuance ? W. S.

[See 8 S. vi. 472, where MR. E. WALFORD stated hat Once a Week "lived a month or so short of

wen ty- one years."]

HARLINGTON, MIDDLESEX. (12 S. i. 410, 457.)

THE village of Harlington and the country mmediately surrounding it have been the scenes of much that has become history. The noble families of the Berke ! eys, the Tankervilles, Arlingtons, and De Salis. Lord Uxbridge and Lord Bolingbroke, have all been closely associated with Harlington and the neighbourhood. The less- known fami lies of Monemouthe, Harpeden, Lovell, Roper, Bird, Longworth, and Coppinger are found represented in its chronicles. Thomas Fuller, the famous author of ' The Worthies/ lies buried close by at Cranford. Joseph Trapp, D.D., the first Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and an author famous in the eighteenth century, was presented by Lord Bolingbroke to the living of Harlington in 1733, and he is buried there.

By far the most humanly interesting facts regarding Harlington can be found in ' My Life and Recollections,' by the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley, 2 vols., 1865. Berkeley was a famous sportsman. He admits that his