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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. MAY, 1919.

-strangers round a show-place complained to the owner, and, reporting the incident to us, said the man was ' trounced,' meaning, I imagine, Tebuked for his rudeness."

Perhaps some readers may add further Information about the term.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

BIRD -SCARING SONGS (12 S. v. 98). Is it permissible to quote the following refer - -fcuoo vG a bird -scaring song, though neither words nor tune can be supplied ?

There was a young man of Boulong Who went through the woods with a song. ft wasn't the words That so startled the birds, But the horrible double entong.

EDWARD BENSLY.

Although I spent my early years among Derbyshire farmers, I never heard any bird -scaring songs. Two or three devices were in use. One was a clapper in the hands of a lad who, after a vigorous clapping, shouted or chanted in a sing-song way :

Away, bods, away !

Tak' a bit, an' leave a bit,

An' cum no moor to-day.

The tune was on the tuning-fork C, and a note above and below, ending with more of the clapper. Another clapping machine wa> on the windmill fashion, placed on a pole, and wind -driven by sails. It made an being to send the " bods " to the other side of the field. A gun had no other effect in the hands of a lad, but it made the lad "hai)py. THOS. RATCLIFFE.
 * awful row in a strong wind, its main effect

Southfield, Worksop.

MISSEL THRUSH AND MISTLETOE SEEDS {12 S. v. 98). In vol. iv. p. 440 of Lean's " 6 Collectanea of Proverbs,' &c., is placed The thrush when he pollutes the bough Sows for himself the seeds of woe ;

=and the reader is directed to Swan's ' Specu- lum Mundi,' p. 246 (1665), for " Turdus ipse sibi cacat malum." I do not find that my copy of the ' Speculum,' dated 1635, has any reference to the matter. ST. S WITHIN.

MORLAND GALLERY, FLEET STREET (12 S. v. 69). The exhibition of work by George Morland, mentioned in 1806 by Sir Richard Phillip? in his ' Picture of London,' was opened at Macklin's Rooms in Fleet Street in 1805. It was known as the " Morland Gallery," and contained ninety -five pictures, -many of which were of marine subjects. The othe '3 included ' Inside a Stable ' (engraved  large as life. A contemporary critic of the exhibi- tion complains that Morland 's " little simple subjects are overwhelmed with superb frames, of a prodigious, and in some cases we think of a preposterous depth."

WILLIAM T. WHITLEY.

Redgrave's ' Dictionary of Artists of the English School,' 1878 edition, p. 405, says that the Morland Gallery was ono of John Raphael Smith's best speculations ; and a statement to the same effect i.3 in Roget's ' History of the " Old 5i Water-Colour Society,' 18'Jl, vol. ii. p. 115. W. B. H.

WILL. FISHER SHRAPNEL, F.S.A. (12 S. v. 67). In a list of officers of the Royal South Gloucestershire Militia his name appears as surgeon, Jan. 2, 1893 evidently a misprint : either 1793 or 1803 would be the probable date. . In the same list there is as ensign Henry Jones Shrapnell, May 15, 1806.

Wiltshire N. <k Q., no. 2, June, 1893, p. 67, states that the family of Shrapnel

" seem to have lived at Midway House, Lower Westwood, near Bradford, 'the name of Mr. Zechariah Shrapnell appearing on Andrews & Dury's map of 1773 in connection with Midway House."

General Shrapnel died March 13, 1842, and was buried in the family vault in the chancel of Bradford Church (see inscription at 12 S. iv. 129).

In The Genealogist, vol. xxxiii. p. 126, Henry Shrapnell of Bradford, cooper, is bondsman in a marriage allegation, Dec. 15, 1668. R. J. FYNMORE.

"PRO PELLE CUTEM " (12 S. V. 93).

The original source of the proverb is Job ii. 4: " Pellem pro pelle, et cuncta quse habet homo, dabit pro anima sua " (Vulg.). Is it necessary to go beyond that passage for an explanation ? J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

MARKSHALL AND THE FULLER FAMILY (12 S. v. 8, 78). I much regret that I am not able to solve the problem set by OLD EAST ANGLIAN re connexion between Vesey, 1575, ani the Fullers of Markshall. All I know is stated fully, pp. 30 to 35 and 66 to 70, in Mis. Gen. et Her., Fourth Series, vol. iv. Perhaps by consulting these references OLD EAST ANGLIAN may see light where I do not.

J. F. FULLER, F.S.A.

Eglinton Road, Dublin.