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represented by e in that dialect ; cp. W right, 'O.E. Grammar,' 183, 54, note 1. How strongly marked a feature the palatalization of -ng- is in Kentish will become evident at once to all who will glance at Hythe in the .county map. That town is ringed round by a number of little places in " -inge " : sc. Hawkinge, Lyminge, Ruckinge, and Sell- ing ; and there is also a marsh there called Denge.

I am quite satisfied that Prof. Skeat's research and conclusions about " Pang " are sufficiently exhaustive, and that the pang that ME. HARRISON derives from the Latin pungere is as unreal as the Pengingas. MR. HILL'S proposition opens up a wide and un- bounded prospect ; but " shadows, clouds, .and darkness rest upon it." With Prof. Skeat's book open before me I am reminded of the pun that Gregory the Great made when a locust settled on a page he was read- ing at some place about three days' journey from Rome, on his way to ^Angleland. Gregory saw an omen in locusla. and evolved the command therefrom in loco sla.

ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

COLOUR-PRINTING MID -NINETEENTH CEN- TURY (12 S. i. 328). The picture on the box is probably one of Baxter's needls-box -prints, which were made for the decoration of boxes of needles. Baxter began to ornament such boxes and packets of needles about 1850, and they were very popular tluring the forties and fifties of last century. The packets of the needles were decorated -with a print, and the lids of the boxes them- selves are frequently found with a Baxter print thereon, varnished over. See ' The Picture Printer of the Nineteenth Century,' Iby C. T. C. Lewis, London, 1911.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ST. GEORGE MUMMING PLAY (12 S. i. 327, 390). There are many published versions of this play. I have two Lancashire, Cheshire, .and North Midland chapbooks, and one printed in Ireland (there are others in the north and south counties) ; two manuscript Derbyshire and Notts versions written from memories of the play as acted seventy years .ago ; and several fragments which have portions of ' The Owd Tup ' and ' The Owd TECoss ' mixed up in the text. ' The Owd Hoss ' was a favourite play amongst " farmer joskins " for many years at ^Christmastime, but I have not met with it for nearly twenty years. The lads went from house to house with one of their number made up as a horse, carrying on his shoulders a horse's head with the inside

replaced by his own head the horse's head cured with the skin on, and the lower jaw hinged so that it could by pulling a string be clashed against the upper jaw. The whole thing was intended to frighten maids and make men merry, as the fortunes of a well- bred horse were told from his prime to his death a rough mixture of language but a curious play, which I have never seen printed except in the form of a song sold at wakes, "stattis," and fairs.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Works op.

A version is printed in Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1909, xxii. 389-94. The words were taken down by a pupil at a school in St. Louis " from the recitation of her father, who had taken part in the play as a boy in the rural community of Broadway, Worcester- shire, England, at least thirty- five years Pgo." ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

THE LUMBER TROOP, FETTER LANE (12 S. i. 469). See The Attic Miscellany for April, 1791, which gives a full history to that time, and Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, vol. xxvii. (in a paper on ' Some Okl-Time Clubs and Societies '), for a summary of its career to the sale of its properties in 1859, accompanied by reproductions of two illustra- tions, 1790-95. References in ' N. & Q.' are 4 S. v. 340 ; 6 S. vi. 448 5 490 ; vii. 16. See also ' D.N.B.,' sub nom. Richard Taylor (1781-1858). W. B. H.

[MR. G. L. APPERSON thanked for reply.]

' WANTED A GOVERNESS ' (12 S. i. 467). Grove's ' Dictionary ' states that the words are by George Dubourg, and the music by John Orlando Parry ; also that the success of the song (published in 1840) induced Parry to devote himself wholly to comic singing. J. S. S.

WANTED A LADY HELP.

A lady help wanted genteel and refined,

Obliging and cheerful, industrious, kind ;

To take charge of six children the eldest eleven,

The youngest a baby (a little help given).

The requirements are English, and music, and

Latin,

French, German, and painting on canvas and satin. One expert with her needle it 's hoped, too, to gain In all kinds of work, whether fancy or plain. An orphan or destitute lady would find In return for her services treatment most kind, With ten pounds per annum, if equal to fill The above-mentioned station with competent skill. Reply by return, for so many would come Without any pay for "a good Christian I