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 12 s. viii. JUNE 11, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 473 partly sunk into the ground, placed there finished the Monument to remain closed." by Cook to mark the spot where his pedestal This was duly carried out yet on Dec. 4 quadrant (now in the Science Museum at in that same year a wondering and terrified South Kensington) was set up when he de- crowd saw a man standing on the very termined the longitude. The observa- summit of the Monument, above the gilt tions of the transit were made at three part representing flames ! Expecting him different places, one on a hill at the rear to leap into space the spectators were re- of Point Venus (Matavai), another some lived to see him after a few minutes disappear miles along the coast to the eastward of within the golden ball. This venturesome that, and the third at the island of Mo'orea, person was one of a number of workmen sixteen or eighteen miles to the westward, employed on repairing the interior iron- Cook's original brass fillet has been | work. W. COUBTHOPE FOBMAN. carefully preserved in the reconstruction to which the term " memorial " is now j The replies at the last reference, with applied ; but it is really and technically the exception of an incidental remark by what the Admiralty calls an " observation mark " left in situ for the guidance of future observers. B. GLANVILL COBNEY. [Our correspondent informs us that enlarged W. J. M., do not deal with the second query by MB. WAINEWBIGHT. He may like to be referred to the edition of ' The Ingoldsby Legends,' edited by the author's daughter, Mrs. Edward A. Bond, and published by copies of his photograph may be seen at the j Richard Bentley and Son in three volumes rooms of the Royal Society, the Royal Geo- 1 in 1894. This edition gives various historical graphical Society, and the Royal Astronomical no ^ es UBLLAD THE MONUMENT: 'INGOLDSBY LEGENDS'! MB - *<>= B - WAINEWBIGHT asked the (12 S. viii. 392, 434). At half -past ten on oth 1 er Jay ^ h ? the l' ther T as an. edltlon of the morning of Friday, Aug. 19; 1842, Jane The. Ingoldsby Legends with notes ex- Cooper; aged 17, a domestic servant, leaped Paining the various references to their from the rail at the top of the Monument, current events. I do not think there is In her descent she turned round, and as one but I have one edition with a few she struck the earth while in a position by contemporaneous notes not by any means which her knees were near her chest, nearly exhaustive. I cannot help thinking that every bone was broken. She took such a between us the companionship of ' N. & Q. leap that she fell nearly 12 feet from the could easil y compile a very interesting base of the Monument in Fish Street Hill, collection if every one noted down the points and cleared a cart which was standing at he wanted explaining and explained those the side of the pavement. he knew. WILLIAM BULL. At the inquest it transpired that Jenkins, Vencourt. the attendant, in performance of his duty, went with her to the top, but his attention SMALLEST PIG or A LITTEB (12 S. viii. 331, was attracted by the shutting of a door, j 376, 395, 417, 435, 453). In the Gort and and while he left her for a few minutes to [ Loughrea districts of Co. Galway, Ire- see what had happened the unfortunate land, the smallest pig of a litter which is, young woman took her desperate jump. No reason for her suicide was elicited, and the jury brought in a verdict of tempoiary insanity. On Aug. 22 the City Lands Committee, I believe, the last born is called the " runt." In Co. Dublin and Co. Wicklow the word " runt " is also used to denote the weakling of a litter ; but I am not sure whether in these counties it is a local name in order to prevent any other persons from j or whether the users have imported the very famous the head of the visitor to leave no chance | breeder of these dogs who lived in Co. of squeezing through. The additional rail- Carlow, and I was told that he was the ings to be painted white, so as to be in- " runt " of the litter. So the name is not,, visible at a distance." The surveyor of j apparently, confined to the smallest pig. the works was directed to proceed with ABTHUB J. IBELAND. the alteration immediately, and "till it is St.'Albans.