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 9< s. x. DEC. 6, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" BEHIND EACH CLOUD THE SUN is ALWAYS SHINING" (9 th S. x. 309). These lines are taken from a poem by Miss Ellen Thorney- croft Fowler, called 'The Wisdom of Folly,' which is in her book called ' Verses Wise and Otherwise.' L. M. A. GIBB.

Ramleh, Reigate.

Permit the reference to ' The Rainy Day, ' by Longfellow :

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind each cloud is the sun still shining. Thy fate is the common fate of all ; Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

I quote from memory.

JAS. CURTIN, F.S.A.

"WHIPPING THE CAT" (9 th S. x. 205, 298)' See also 3 rd S. ix. 155 ; 7 th S. v. 310 ; and the 'E.D.D.,' 1898, s.v. 'Cat,' p. 537.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

FOLK-LORE : SIEVE AND SHEARS (8 th S. ii. 305,416, 511 ; iii. 134, 354). It is unfortunate that Mr. W. J. Hardy, who has edited the records of the county of Worcester for the Historical MSS. Commission (' Report on MSS. in Various Collections,' vol. i., 1901), is not a student of 'N. & Q.,' otherwise he would not have written the foot-note copied below. On 2 April, 1633, Anne Bellett, of Stacey Morton, widow, gave recognizance for her appearance at the next general sessions, to answer such accusations as should be made against her by William Vahan, Thomas Heynes, and Robert Hey nes, all of Inkberrow, "for the evil art that she useth with the juggling trick of the sive* and shears to find out goodslost, and using the name of Peter and Paul therein in profane manner, being said to be founder of that sleight and cosening trick." The last words are interesting, and indicate that this ancient superstition had then for the first time come to the knowledge of the Shallows of Worcestershire. Whence had Anne Bellett imported it? O. 0. H.

FAMILY CRESTS (9 th S. x. 109, 173, 374). I am obliged to MR. LEIGHTON for his reply to my query. I have Fairbairn's 'Crests,' 'Family Crests,' &c., in my own library, but the antithesis to these is what I asked for, and MR. LEIGHTON'S 'Ordinary of British Crests ' will supply the want. I shall await its publication with much interest

CROSS-CROSSLET.

BLACK FAST (9 th S. x. 248, 352). MR. HOB- SON MATTHEWS is usually well informed on - matters of Catholic usage. But I confess I am at a loss to know on what ground he

Sive, a scythe (see Halliwell's Dictionary)."

bases his statement that Christmas Eve is observed by English Catholics as one of " the three severest fast-days of the year." Is there any authority which prescribes a stricter fast on Christmas Eve than on the vigils (say) of Whitsunday, SS. Peter and Paul, the Assumption, or All Saints' ?

D. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Oxford.

DR. HAWTREY'S ' NUGJE ' (9 th S. x. 261, 390). I ought to have given the heading to Meleager's lament, MeAeaypov ets y VVOIKO.. I recur to it because I see that MR. AXON quotes the lines as" Meleager's lament for his child. It may be that his reading is right; but the above was the heading given in the book in which I read the lines in 1859.

ALDENHAM.

"TANDEM" (9 th S. x. 308). The quotation from Grose is from the 1785 edition. Though none of the following extracts is so early as the eighteenth centJdry, yet they are of in- terest :

" About ten o'clock I set off [from Philadelphia], agreeably to appointment, with my brother George in his tandem, accompanied by a groom, to Washing- ton." 1809, 27 Sept., S. Breck, 'Recollections' (1877), p. 264.

"The carts used here [Montreal] are light, and the body of the drays have a fall from the shafts, in the manner of our tumbrels. The horses are small; bells are fixed to their harness. Carts drawn by dogs are common ; I have seen a tandem dog cart, the dogs harnessed and belled the same as horses." 1817, 21 Sept., J. Palmer, 'Journal of Travels in the U.S. of N.A. and in Lower Canada' (1818), p. 217.

" The only objects of sight or hearing, that recall to mind the sweet fables of yore, are the tall poplar trees about some of the farm - houses, and the answering echoes of the hunter's gun or stage- driver's tin trumpet. The poplars remind us of the sisters of Phaeton (great tandem gentleman in ancient times, who burnt the people of Africa all black by driving the chariot of the sun too close to the poor caitiffs)." 1817, J. K. Paulding, 'Letters from the South,' i. 135. Paulding was a New Yorker.

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

JOHN CARPENTER, TOWN CLERK OF LONDON 1417-38 (8 th S. x. 216). In 'The Life and Times of John Carpenter,' by Thomas Brewer (London, 1856), there are transcripts of several documents. From his wife's will it appears that his father's name was Richard. In his own will he describes himself as John Carpenter, jun., and he leaves to "John, son of my brother John, one hundred shillings sterling." He also mentions a brother Robert. In the record of his election to Parliament in 1436 he is described as John