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 12 S. X. JAN. 7, 1922.] NOTES AND QUERIES. ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN| THE GREAT WAR. (See 12 S. ix. 341, 378, 383, 415. 423, 455, ; 465, 499, 502, 53*.) WE are indebted to MB. E. LONSDALE DEIGH- TON for the following more or less travestied ', Russian words which were adopted by the ! troops serving in Russia and used there as i were ''sanfaryan" and "napoo" on the: Western Front. BARISHNYA (tiapuouu). Strictly an unmarried i lady. To Tommy, any " bird." Do SVIDANYA ! (40 CBHjaHba). Good-bye ! The I Russian expression meaning Au revoir I PEANNY (nwawM). Drunk. POZHALYSTA (noHjajyiicia). Please. SPASSEBA (coacndo). Thanks. STARES CHELEVEK (ciapwii Me.iOB'feKi). An old j man. A term applied to the C.O., or! any other person in authority. XAROSHEB (xopouim). (Pronounce " x " as Scottish j " eh-") An expression .of satisfaction. | Equivalent to Tres bien and as much j mutilated in pronunciation. YAH NB PANEMIYU (a He noRHMaro). " I dont j understand." An expression most fre- quently used by Tommy in making love : to his barishnya. " ZDRASTVTTYE ! " (Contracted very often into " Zdrast ! ") The Russian form of greeting is " 34pacTByfiie," meaning " Be healthy 1 " Adopted by the troops it became the general form of greeting among themselves. [No English Army Slang will appear in the next three numbers of * N. & Q.'] EARLY BALL GAMES. In The Daily Mail, of Dec. 22, 1921, there appears a reproduc- tion of an illustration from a ' Book of ; Hours ' (c. 1500) in the British Museum representing what looks extraordinarily | like a game of golf. This reminded me of a passage in A. Abram's ' English Life and Manners in the Later Middle Ages ' (p. 235), as follows : " Other statutes and procla- j mations include among unlawful games [temp. Rich. II.]. . . cambuc, probably a kind of golf, the ball being hit with a i curved bat called a bandy." This again | reminds me of a game in vogue in the Isle j of Man from days of yore locally called j cammug. Both the game itself and the ( stout curved stick, preferably of gorse, are | named cammug. The two names cambuc and cammug are virtually identical, the j labial letter " b " of the one having been j softened into the nasal labial " m " of the other. If I am not mistaken, cammug j differed from both golf and hockey, con- ' . sisting, I think, of a trial of strength as to ] who should drive the object struck to the greatest distance. But I am not sure of this, though I am sure there were no holes to negotiate as in golf. But certainly there is a cousinship between all these various games golf, hockey, the game depicted in the ' Book of Hours,' cambuc and cammug. CHABLES SWYNNERTON, F.S.A. PRIVILEGES GRANTED BY THE LORD OF THE MANOR. An interesting sidelight on the social life of the time of James I., and incidentally on the comprehensive nature of the privileges which it was in the power of the lord of the manor to give, is shown by the following copy of a paper in my possession. It seems extraordinary that the amenities of even a small country village should be so disregarded as to permit such rights to any one person, how- ever important he might be locally. John Smyth was the steward of the Hundred of Berkeley and the writer of the ' Lives of the Berkeleys.' Wee Sr William Cooke and Sr Thomas Estcourt knights executors of the last will and Testament of the Bight Honble Henry lord Berkley de- ceased, doe hereby, as farre as in us lyeth, grant, and give leave unto John Smyth of Nibly in the County of Glouc gent, for the better compostinge, soylinge, and refreshinge of the arrable lands of the said John in Nibly aforesaid, to bringe and cast strawe into the streets and highwayes their, And the same afterwards to shovell togeather on heapes and cary into the arrable grounds of the said John, fforbiddinge all others to enter- medle in the like in any the streets and high- wayes in Nibly aforesaid, without the leave of the said John. Witnes our hands, this p'sent ixth of May. 1614. THO : ESTCOURT. ROLAND AUSTIN. Gloucester. FIELDINGIANA. Leslie Stephen, in his essay on Fielding, says : Though I do not think that he [i.e. Taine] is at his best in discussing the " amiable buftalo," Fielding, he makes a criticisir, which may help us to a further judgment. I do not wish to be hypercritical, but I may point out that Taine does not call Fielding " an amiable buffalo." He is apostrophizing Fielding, and he says, " L'homme tel que vous le concevez, est un bon buffle." It is also, I should think, an open question whether " amiable buffalo " is a correct translation of bon buffle. A certain elan des sens, a certain bouillonne- ment du sang, are included in Taine's conception of a good buffalo, as is clearly shown by the context. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG.