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 ix. DEC. 31, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 537 four-line verses relating to which, and telling a similar story to the one at above reference,- but substituting deer stealing for sheep stealing, is on page 179 of Potter's 'Charnwood Forest' (1842). Are not the Great Hangman and the Little Hangman used as names on the sea- coast by Ilfracombe, North Devon ? W. B. H. PHARAOH AS SURNAME (12 S. ix. 407, 454). Pharaoh exists as a surname in Earlestown and Warrington to-day. I believe the noble name of Ptolemy is still to bo found in Scotland. Unfeeling philolo- gists who begrudge us any scrap of romance say that both names are corruptions, one from Farrow and the other from Bartholo- mew. ARTHUR BOWES. Professor Ernest Weekley, in ' Surnames,' at p. 205 S says : Pharaoh, Pharro is explained by Bardsley as a corruption of Farrow. It is more likely that the latter is corrupted from Pharaoh, a very specta- cular personage. and appends the note : Pharao Kircke was buried at Repton, Dec. ] , 1602. There are Pharaohs in London and Brighton to-day, but the only Pharo is apparently of Scandinavian descent, and his name is evidently a corruption of the Danish Faar-O, i.e., sheep island. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. CURIOUS SURNAMES (12 S. vi. and vii., passim ; ix. 208, 496). The following appeared in a London paper in 1911 : The Deptford revising barrister has just been startled by the name Hazelelponi Carter. But for a curious combination of surname and Chris- tian name commend us to Maher-shal-al-hash- baz Dosser, who was a Suffolk postmaster only a few years ago. C. J. MAGRATJI. WORDS OF SONGS WANTED : ' THE CORK LEG' AND 'THE STEAM ARM' (12 S. ix. 470). The words of these two songs were contained in No. 1 of D'Alcorn's ' Musical Miracles ' which comprised the music and words of 120 comic songs sung by Sam Cowell. The book cost a shilling only and was published by H. D'Alcorn and Co., 25 Poland Street, W. This firm, I believe, no longer exists, but H. B. may perhaps inquire who took over their business and whether the little book which contains all the old classical comic songs, such as ' Villikins and his Dinah,' ' Ratcatcher's Daughter,' &c.,is still obtainable. If H. B. cannot obtain it, I will copy out the words of the two songs for him, though there are 13 verses in ' The Cork Leg ' and fourteen in ' The Steam Arm,' too long to print in ' N. & Q.' WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. 80, St. George's Square, S.W.I. P.S. ' The Cork Leg ' but not ' The Steam Arm ' is also published in ' The Musical Bouquet ' Series, by C. Sheard, 196, Shaftesbury Avenue, W. I have read in your interesting periodical the call, to anyone who may happen to remember them, for the verses of ' The Cork Leg ' and ' The Steam Arm.' ' The Steam Arm ' did not much appeal to me, but ' The Cork Leg ' did. I furnish them as I remember them, and I trust they are correct. I can account for their being so well remembered from their having been so often repeated when in my dhoolie in the time of the Mutiny in India and thus helped to pass many a weary hour, with other pieces of poetry, grave and gay. If they are not quite correct it must be put down to the fact that they were committed to memory nearly seventy years ago. I take this opportunity of asking if any of your readers can furnish me with a correct copy of ' 'Twas in the Atlantic Oshi-un,' the mourn- ful tale of a drowned sailonnan. C. J. DURAND, Colonel. The Villa, Guernsey. [We have forwarded the verses, including the last verse sent separately, to our correspondent.] In reply to H. B. If the song he refers to as ' The Cork Leg ' begins " A poor relation came to beg And in kicking him out I broke my own leg," perhaps Canon W. H. Robins of Rochester may be able to help. I heard him sing this song over 50 years ago ! F. J. HANNAN, M.D. Burnham-on-Couch, Essex. I am not surprised at H. B. being unable to obtain copies, as they belong to the tune of the Sam Cowell vogue, fifty and more years ago, and interest in them will only exist amongst those who, like myself, found amusement from them in our youth. The collections in my possession consist of three 8vo booklets published by Charles Sheard " at ' The Musical Bouquet ' Office, 192, High Hoi- born," at sixpence each, words in full 12, 14, and 16 verses are quite common and single treble stave air to each song. These books are entitled : " Sam Co well's Selected Comic Songs, as sung at the ' Oxford ' and the ' Canterbury ' Music Halls." Contains fifty songs. " Lingard's New Comic Song Book." Forty songs. " Vance's Comic Song Book." Forty songs. They are undated, but I remember them in use well over fifty years ago. Their contents are exclusively of the " doggerel " type of song so popular at that time, and of which fair examples are : Aunt Jemima's Plaister ; Artful Dodger ; A Norri-bull Tale : Alderman Gobble ; Bacon and Greens ; Billy Barlow ; Ben Battle ; Barney Brallaghan ; Billy Vite and Sally Green ; Billy Buttercup ; Captain with his Whiskers ; Cobbler