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then fell back, leaving the gun still on the sand. During the day the enemy succeeded in carrying it off. Such was the combat of Ramnagar, an affair entailing considerable the more to be regretted because useless loss on the British army. The object aimed at the retirement of the Sikhs to the right bank had been gained by the mere display of the British troops. The subsequent fighting was unnecessary butchery, which caused the loss to the British army of two splendid officers, Cureton and Havelock, and eighty-four men, killed, wounded, and missing. Besides this, it gave great encourage- ment to the Sikhs, who could boast that in their first encounter they had met the British not unequally.'' Pp. 400-1.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

JUBILEE OF KINO GEORGE III. (7 th S. iii. 406, 502 ; iv. 7, 115, 258) The following is in a MS. commonplace book, under date " Dun- bar, 31 October, 1809 " :

Song after the Jubilee Day, 1809.

' Dainty Geordie.' Tune, ' Dainty Davie.' ' Now, here we 're met to take our glass,

An' a' our party jars suppress, An' wi' ae mouth a' to confess

That we like Dainty Geordie. For under him we sit and crack,

In peace and unity compact, Whilst every nation 's on the rack That does nae like our Geordie.

Chorus. Then for his sake we '11 tak' a gill,

An' to the lip our glasses fill, We '11 tilt them off wi right goodwill

An' drink long life to Geordie..

These fifty years he's steer'd the helm,

A time nae doubt o' great alarm, But here we 're a' wi' little harm,

Our Pilot, Dainty Geordie : Some Kings hae tumbled heels o'er head,

Now ithers reigning in their stead, And mony ane o them are dead,

Since we crown'd Dainty Geordie.

There 's Bonaparte o'er the sea,

A little, restless, busy bee, He '11 weary out himseF and dee,

Perhaps before our Geordie. For mony Kings lias he seen out,

And empires whirled roundabout, But he himself is yet fu' stout,

Our ain auld Dainty Geordie.

O' wad they sheath the bludy knife,

An' Nations bury a' their strife, An' no sae thirst for ither's life,

I hope it is nae Geordie. But I'll no speak about the war,

Lest that should breed an unco' jar ; We came nae here to hae a spar,

But just sing Dainty Geordie.

Chorus. .

W. B. H.

EARTHWORKS AT BURPHAM (9 th S. x. 129, 214). A description of this oppidum and others in the vicinity of Pulborough is given

in 'Glimpses of our Ancestors in Sussex, second series, by 0. Fleet, 1883, p. 105, but probably the best account would be found in the volumes of the Transactions of the Sussex Archaeological Society. T. F.

Buss QUERIES (9 th S. x. 386). Many articles relative to the various publications illustrated by the late R. . W. Buss also appeared in 'N. & Q.,' 5 th S. iii., iv., vii. At p. 330 of the first-named volume "a complete list of his works" will be found above the signature of his son MR. ALFRED Buss.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"TARRIERS" (9 th S. x. 406)." Tarrier " for " terrier " is still in common use in the Mid- lands and North of England. There is an old conundrum, l< What kind of dog is the dog- star ?" to which the answer is, "A skye- tarrier." C. C. B.

PIN PICTURES (9% S. x. 308, 375). Shortly before his death ,Mr. Andrew W. Tuer made me a present of his ' Old-Fashioned Children's Books,' a collection and reprint of many little books familiar in early days. From the pre- fatory introduction the following explanation is extracted : -

" Pricking pictures with pins was another agree- able accomplishment. The pins were of several thicknesses, the broad lines and heavy shadows being pricked on paper with stout, and the finer work with thin pins. A toothed wheel with sharp points was used for outlines. For filling up large spaces two or more wheels were mounted on one axle. Without such labour-saving appliances, the more ambitious and microscopically minute pin- pricked pictures, specimens of which survive, could not have been achieved." P. xiv.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (9 th S. x 346). Girault- Duvivier observes in his ' Grammaire des Grammaires ' (1844 ed., p. 975) :

"Pour le mot theatre 1'usage a triomphe" de Petymologie. L' Academic, en 1835, a persevere" dans

1'emploi de 1'accent circonflexe Ce mot devrait

s'ecrire sans accent, puisque d'ailleurs il vient

evidemment de theatrum ; mais ici tous les lexi- cographes, et 1'usage ge"neralement adopte, en ont decide autrement."

"An accent circumflex," says Marin de la Voye (' Comparative French Grammar,' p. 250), " is used over long a that precedes ch and t natural "a rule enunciated also by the grammarian "previously cited. Napoleon Landais, in his ' Grammaire ' (1835, p. 190), instructs us to circumflex the'dtre, formerly written theastre, on account of the derivation of theatrum from the Greek 0ea<r0<tt. But I think that the introduction of the sibilant