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Rh at that time was the freeholder. In it he states:—

J. L. H.

An interesting article on Baker's Chop-House, initialed G. A. H., appeared in The Christian World of Dec. 9, from which I venture to extract the following paragraph

(11 S. xii. 482).—It is not unlikely that rats do detest toads. These amphibians, like newts—and, if I remember rightly, salamanders—secrete a poisonous fluid in certain glands on their upper surface, which fluid they eject when molested. A little animal like a rat might find it deadly. English country people sometimes complain of being "venomed" by toads and newts—we have no salamanders—but probably the fluid does not cause trouble unless it penetrates a slight wound. It might, however, affect the mucous membrane, and the eyes, if it came in contact with them. The head of a dog will sometimes swell when it has been foolish enough to take a toad into its mouth. I have been told, also, of a flock of turkeys which were blinded for a time by the swelling of the delicate skin on their heads, because they had pecked a toad. Consult Hans F. Gadow's,'Amphibia and Reptiles.' T. O. A. D.

(12 S. i. 10).—I am afraid I cannot quite see what bearing the stanza of 'Don Juan' cited by has on the alliteration of "Fat, fair, and forty."

In the early sixties Sam Cowell used to sing a song entitled 'The One-Hoss Shay,' which described the vicissitudes of an elderly couple who "took a trip to Brighton" in that conveyance, and had their garments "pinched" by some shrimping urchins while bathing in an adjacent bay. It commenced:—

(11 S. xi. 397, 501; xii. 72, 511).—Mr. Wake must have moved to Fritchley, Derby, as early as Dec. 25, 1885, for I have his Monthly Catalogue 110 with that address and date. It is printed on one side of a double folio sheet, and not an 8vo catalogue as are No. 1, New Series, April, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, &c., all printed by Bemrose & Sons, Derby. I shall be glad to send it for inspection.

 (11 S. xii. 260, 407, 487). While thanking your two correspondents for correcting my topography, I must still keep to it, as I lived twenty-two years quite near Castellmarch. This is on Hell's Mouth, Porth Neigwl, or Port Nigel, which are all one and the same, as a glance at any good map, e.g., Stieler's (Gotha, Perthes, 1911), will at once convince the most sceptical. }}

(11 S. xii. 440, 09).—Further consideration had led me to the same conclusion as D. O. even before his letter appeared. It seems probable from a MS. of Schlenker's that apal and apampakai are not the same species; it was on the supposition of the duplication of name for a single species that I suggested the derivation of apal from English. Parrots generally seem to be rare, and I have seen only one species.

It is, of course, improbable, prima facie, that an animal or bird would get a European name. But Timne, and probably adjacent languages, have shown extra-ordinary powers, compared with other negro languages, of incorporating foreign.