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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JULY, 1917.

ARMS OF ST. WILFRID (12 S. iii. 250, 310). It is perhaps worth while to notice that in the window at Chichester there is no representation whatever of either suns or stars. The bearings on the shield, though broken and misplaced, are plainly leopards' faces ; and the arms are those of Arch- deacon More as they appear in stone on Canon Gate. R. H. C.

FIRE PUTTING OUT FIRE (12 S. ii. 530). In the ' Annals of Japan,' finished in 720, lib. vii., it is said that, when Yamatotake no Mikoto visited Suruga (A.D. 110), the traitorous subjects there invited him to a hunting, and set the field on fire to destroy him suddenly ; but the prince produced another fire with his flint and steel, made a " contrary burning " of it, and succeeded in saving himself. According to Prince Ichijo's ' Kwacho Yojo ' (A.D. 1472), " should a new fire be raised before a previously raging one, unfailingly the latter would be put out by the former, which act is called ' contrary burning.' The term is often figuratively used when one speaks of an^ angry man being quelled by another excited one."

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

' TALES OF MY LANDLORD,' NEW SERIES (12 S. iii. 300). The dream of Rhesus to which reference was made is that described in the tenth 'Iliad'; see lines 494-7, of which 497 is generally regarded as an inter- polation. Lang (in Leaf, Lang, and Myers's version) translates the passage thus :

" But when the son of Tydeus came upon the king, he was the thirteenth from whom he took sweet life away, as he was breathing hard, for an evil dream stood above his head that night, even the seed of Oineus, through the device of Athene."

Leaf and Bayfield have the following note :

" Rhesos is breathing heavily under the in- fluence of an ominous dream which has actually appeared to him, but fails to save him. The

interpolator of the next line ["that night

Athene "], giving an ironical turn to the passage, makes Diomedes himself the 'ugly dream.'" EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

INDIAN MOUNDS, U.S.A. (12 S. iii. 90, 154). To answer the original query very briefly, the mounds were used as places of burial. In addition to the three works mentioned in SIR EDWARD BRABROOK'S reply, I would refer to the Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass. In the society s

volume for 1820 (423pp.) there is included a " Description of the Antiquities discovered in the State of Ohio and other Western States, written by Caleb At water,- Counsellor of the Society for the State of Ohio, illustrated by engravings of ancient fortifications mounds, &c., from actual survey" (163 pp.). This is a most interesting and valuable treatise. WILLIAM FRANCIS CRAFTS.

Brookline, Boston, Mass.

FOLK-LORE : THE ANGELICA (12 S. iii. 51,

259, 312). The ' Speculum Mundi ' declares that

" Angelica is hot and dry in the third degree. It is an enemie to poysons and easeth pestilent diseases, if it be used in time : yea, the very root chewed in the mouth is good against infection."

ST. SWITHIN.

AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. iii. 301). 1. Gigantic daughter of the West.

The lines quoted by MR. J. CATHCAKT WASON are from Tennyson's short poem ' Hands all Round,' which appeared originally in The Examiner in 1852. It is not to be found in all the English editions, and, if I mistake not, it was withdrawn by the author. But ' Hands all Round ' is very popular in the United States, and is given, I think, in most American editions. The lines following those quoted by MR. WASON are specially in- teresting at the present moment :

Should war's mad blast again be blown, Permit not thou the tyrant powers

To fight thy mother here alone,

But let thy broadsides roar with our.s !

Hands all round ! .God th tyrant's cause confound !

I quote from the edition published at Boston, U.S.. in 1879, by Houghton, Osgood & Co.

MICHAEL GRAHAM. Cathcart, Glasgow.

The lines are from ' Hands all Round,' by Tennyson. The poem is to be found in '^The Suppressed Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1830-1868,' edited by J. C. Thomson, and pub- lished by Sands & Co. It is reprinted in ' Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a, Memoir,' by his son, pp. 288-90.

Taunton. A. E. BAKER.

[' Hands all Round,' as printed on p. 575 of Macmillan's one- volume edition of Tennyson's ' Works,' 1894, has but three verses, and omits those referring to the United States. There are many other changes in the text.]

3. On a lone moor all wild and bleak. This was written by George Colman. It will be found, along with ' The Newcastle Apothecary,' another well-known old-time recitation by the same author, in ' The Beauties of the Poets, Satirical and Humorous,' selected from the most admired authors by James Ely Taylor, 1824. The poem consists of thirty-seven four -line verses, and the name " Hoppergallop " is given as " Hoppergollop " throughout the poem.

ARTHUR BOWES.