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 »* s. iv. NOV. is, 419 NOTES AND QUERIES. the title of one of the ' Tales by the O'Hara Family,' by John Banim, published in 1825 graphic and powerfully written stories, but now forgotten. Halliwell, in his' Dictionary, gives as the meaning of the word :— " (2) The apparition of a person who is alive. See Brand, in. 122. Fetch-Lights, appearances at night of lighted candles, formerly supposed to prognosticate death. Brand." I can, however, on reference to my copy of Brand's ' Popular Antiquities,' 3 vols., 1870, edited by W. C. Hazlitt, find nothing mentioned on the point: but the reference is no doubt to an earlier edition of the work. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. [" Of obscure origin," see ' H.E.D.'] 'THE LADY OR THE TIGER?'—Can any of your readers tell me where a good review of Frank Stockton's story 'The Lady or the Tiger ?' is to be had t EBLANA. "SPUN BUTTER."—What is this? "Spun butter in all its freshness" (George Eliot, ' Silas Marner,' part i. chap. iii.). JONATHAN BOUCHIEK. LIEUT. - GENERAL SIR EDWARD BARNES, G.C.B.—What were the reasons for the retire- ment of Sir Edward Barnes from the post of Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1833? Is there any authentic record of the circum- stances connected therewith ? G. H. JOHNSTON, Major. " HARATEEN." — In a letter describing Wharncliffe Lodge in 1756 Horace Walpole mentions it as "a wretched hovel shaded with harateen stretched till it cracks." What is"harateen"? H. T. B. [A linen fabric formerly used for bed - curtains, &c. See'H.E.D.'under'Harrateen.'J " BARNYARD " FOR " FARMYARD."—I notice in all American agricultural publications the consistent use of the term barnyard in place of our term farmyard. Even in quotations from an English source the word farmyard is altered to barnyard. What is the reason that barnyard has been thus adopted in the States for our term farmyard t E, HEDGER WALLACE. THAMES TUNNEL.—In the Morning Post of 1 January, 1801, appeared the following para- graph :— "Mr. Dodd is said to have mado a treaty of peace and amity with old Father Thames, who agrees to shed no more tears in the tunnel digging under him." Where was this tunnel, and what became of the project? A. F. K. THOMPSON FAMILY. — Can you or any of the readers of this paper inform me whether a daughter of the sixth Earl of Balcarres and twenty-third Earl of Crawford married a Mr. Thompson, of Tranant, near Edinburgh 1 FRED. THOMPSON. SIDDONS. — Susannah Maria, daughter of a Dr. Siddons, studied and practised vaccina- tion under Dr. Jenner. She married the Rev. Thomas Hitchin (of Tattenhall) at St. Mar- garet's, Westminster, 24 May; 1791. She is said to have been a relation of tiie great actress of her name, and I shall be obliged if any one can tell me now she was so related. FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 14, Beechfield Road, Catford. " KINO OF BANTAM." — What was the origin of this phrase in our seventeenth -century literature ? Jonson has in ' The Alchemist,' II. i. :- Mammon. And wilt thou insinuate what I am, and praise me, And say, lam a noble fellow ? Face. O, what else, sir ? And that you '11 make her royal with the Stone, An empress ; and yourself king of Bantam. And Congreve, in ' Love for Love ' : " Body o' me, I have made a cuckold of a king, and the present Majesty of Bantam is the issue of these loins." PERCY SIMPSON. [You know, of course, that Bantam is a decayed town of Java, now deserted, in a district of the same name.] "PINEAPPLE." — Will any reader inform me what article is referred to in a letter of 1770, which complains that " the Pine-Apple was tried on Sunday and ...... is worn out at the bottom. We have been both much deceived " t The writer goes on to say that he will return it, and desires his correspondent to give him what he pleases for it. Can it refer to a tea- urn 1 I liave a shadowy memory of some- where seeing an old monstrosity shaped like a pineapple which served as an urn. I. C. GOULD. 'AN APOLOGY FOR CATHEDRAL SERVICE,' 39 by J to Win. Who is the author of this? The author's name or initials are not about the work at all. RICH. LAWSON. VERSES BY LORD GRANDISON.— I see it stated that some verses signed " Orandison " were printed in the 1647 edition of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher. By which of the Lords Grandison were the verses written ? H. T. B. , published in 1839 by John Bohn, London. It is inscribed to Win. Wordsworth, Esq. '