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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. IV. JAN., 1918.

out at night by both sides on important traffic - points. Cross - roads in particular come in for the Bodies' and our own " night hate." I have always heard it used in the future tense : " There will be," &c.

If the expression is pre-war in use, it is probably borrowed from some melodrama, and merely refers to highwaymen.

F. M. M.

N It is a mock-heroic expression which has taken the fancy of the public, like " Once aboard the lugger, and the girl is mine ! " or " The man that would lift his hand against a woman, save in the way of affec- tion," &c. It came out of one of Walter Melville's clever melodramas at the Lyceum either ' The Girl who took the Wrong Turning ' or ' No Wedding Bells for Him.' WILLIAM BULL. House of Commons.

Surely the expression " There has been dirty work at the cross-roads " comes from a music-hall sketch of the eighties. At any rate, I recollect hearing it introduced into a burlesque act about that time.

DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE. [ANTIQUARY also thanked for reply.]

COLLECTIONS OF ANIMALS OB BIRDS : CARVING TERMS (12 S. iii. 446). In answer to M.D. (2) I may say that the following carving or serving terms from ' The Corn- pleat Cook,' 1656, are quoted in ' Good Cheer,' by F. W. Hackwood (published by Fisher Unwin, 1911) :

Bear a goose. Lift a swan. Siuce a capon. Spoil a hen. Truss a chicken. Unjoint a bittern. Allay a pheasant. Mince a plover. Unbrace a mallard.

Unlace a coney. Dismember a heron. Display a crane. Disfigure a peacock. Untack a curlew. Wing a partridge or

quail. Thigh a pigeon or

woodcock.

The following refer to fish :

Chine a salmon. String a lamprey.

Splat a pike. S.vuce a tench or Splay a bream. plaice.

Tusk a barbel. Side a haddock.

Transom an eel. Culpon a trout.

Undertranch a porpoise. Tranch a sturgeon.

Tame a crab. Barb a lobster.

F. G. B.

In the British Museum, and in the Bodleian Library, there is " The Family- Dictionary ; or, Houshold Companion : . . By J. H. London, Printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride-lane, in Fleetstreet, 1695." The pages have no numbering. Among other details of value

or worclbookers we find an " APPENDIX. Terms of Art, and Hard Words, that may DC met with in this Work, Explained." Here we note the following :

" Terms of Carving now in Use. Leach that Brawn. Break that Deer. Lift that Swan. Break that Goose. Sauce that Capon. Spoil that Een. Frust that Chicken. Unbrace that Mal- lard. Unlace that Coney. Dismember that Sern. Disfigure that Peacock. Display that Trane. Untach that Curlue. Unjoint that Bit- tern. Allay that Pheasant. Wing that Quail. Mince that Plover. Wing that Partridge. Border that Pasty. Thigh that Woodcock : And the Word in Carving proper to all manner of Small Birds is to Thigh them."

Then follow instructions how each of these anatomies is to be done. Who was that J. H. ? EDWARD S. DODOSON.

C. RYOKWAERTS (12 S. iii. 448, 489). The Dutch translation (MR. PEDDIE'S No. 1) appears to have been made from the 'General Historien ' of Adam Henriepetri, LL.D., of Basle, published at Basle in 1577 according to the British Museum Catalogue, or in 1576 according to De Wind's ' Bibliotheek der Nederlandsche Geschiedschrijvers ' (Middel- burg, 1835) at pp. 269-72 and 562. This ' General Historien ' is in High German.

The French translation of 1582 (MR. PEDDIE'S No. 2) is said to have been made by Theophilus, D.L., whom the B.M. Catalogue identifies with Carl Ryckewaert.

The English translation of 1583 (MR. PEDDIE'S No. 3) is in black-letter, and carries the history down to 1581.

According to De Wind, there was a second Dutch edition published at " Nortwicq " in 1581.

De Wind also says that Petrus Bur- mannus the younger deals with the book in his ' Analecta Belgica,' published in 1772, but a hasty glance through the two volumes failed to reveal the passage.

The French editions published at Lyons do not appear to be in the British Museum.

I should have thought that " Noortwitz " and " Nortwicq " were more likely to be either Noordwyk-Binnen or Noordwyk-aan- Zee than Norwich.

JOHN B. WALNEWRIGHT.

' SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS LITERARY FRIENDS AT ABBOTSFORD ' (12 S. iii. 477). In Pen and Pencil, Aug. 6, 1887, is a copy of this engraving with a key to the names. I quote from that periodical the names which L. A. W. requires. The three figures seated at the table to the left of Thomas Moore are Archibald Constable, James