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1822. A young lady ; a young gentleman.

1823. Miss Orde ; his son ; a young lady.

1824. Master Frederick Raikes.

1825. A lady and her daughter ; a family ; Hugh Holmes Doherty, Esq.; Hugn Doherty, Esq.

1826. Children of John Burke, Esq.; Lady Chat- terton ; General the Earl of Cavan ; a gentleman.

1827. A family ; a lady ; an officer ; a lady.

1828. The children of the late Judge Fullerton ; a lady of quality ; a lady ; a child ; a lady ; a youth ; a nobleman.

1829. Portraits of the same child ; Mrs. C. Wilkin- son and child ; an East Indian young lady ; part of the family of J. G. Ravenshaw, Esq., with their nurse ; Georgiana.

1830. His son ; Miss Hammersley ; a child ; Mrs. Brockman and her son ; his son.

1831. Portraits of a family ; part of a family, with a favourite pony.

1832. The Album; E. W. Tuson, Esq., professor of anatomy, and family ; Bacchanalians (a sketch) ; portrait of a lady.

1833. Portrait of a lady ; John Burke, Esq , author of the ' Peerage,' and his son ; the children of the late W. Turquand, Esq., of India (here note that No. 9:99 is misprinted 936 in the catalogue).

At the British Institution.

1808. Brother and sister ; The Key ; Carelessness ; Archness ; The Origin of Painting (see R.A. 1802).

1809. A Roman Lady prepared for the Bath (see R.A. 1808).

At the Society of British Artists, Sutfolk Street.

1829. Adam and Eve, after Fuseli, R.A.; Sketch- ing ; portraits of a family, with the bust of a de- ceased child (this reads like the R.A. 1814 pic- ture) ; portrait of a young lady.

1831. Study ; an East Indian lady.*

1833. A study ; portraits of the same child.*

Of Buck's works unexhibited I am aware of some forty or fifty that were engraved and printed in colours.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

PLOUGH MONDAY MUMMERIES.

(Concluded from p. 324.)

THE following variant of the play, which was written down for me by J. H., a Kirton- in-Lindsey man, who before his marriage used to be one of the performers, contains the word " sieve " in connexion with a hat :

And not much sieve left in the lining. "Sleave-silk," or "sleave," formerly meant the soft floss - silk used for weaving ; and among the quotations given by Nares in his 1 Glossary ' under ' Sleave-silk ' we find : The bank with daffadillies dight, With grass like sleave was matted.

1 Quest of Cynthia,' p. 622.

Donne has " sleave-silk flies " (sonnets, ' The Bait,' p. 47). In the plough-jag's play it would seem to signify either silken fabric, or

Exhibited at the R.A. 1829.

the nap on such a fabric when woven with a satin-like surface.

PART I.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen all,

Xmas being a merry time

We thought we would give you a call :

And if you will listen

To what I have got to say,

For in a short time there will be

Some more pretty boys and girls this way.

Some can dance, and some can sing ;

By your consent they shall come in.

PART II. In comes a recuiting seargant,

As I suppose you are. You want some bold malitia men,

To face the rageing war. We will bravely face the enemy,

And do the best we can, And if they don't prove civil,

We will slay them every man.

PART III. (Lady sings). In comes a lady bright and gay,

Good fortunes and sweet charms ; I 've scornfully being thrown away

Out of some lover's arms. He swears if I dont wed with him,

As you all understand, He'll list all for a soldier,

And go to some foreign land.

First Man says. Pray, madam, if them be his thoughts

let him go,

He never meanes to wed with you,

But prove your overthrow. When poverty once begins to pinch,

In which it will some day, He '11 have another sweetheart And with her he '11 run away.

Lady. Thank you, kind sir, for your advice

Which you have given to me. I never meant to wed with him,

But have him for to know I '11 have another sweetheart, And along with him I '11 go.

4th Man. In comes I, King George,

With courage stout and bold : With this bright sword I won

Ten thousand pounds in gold. I fought a fiery dragon,

And brought him to the slaughter And by that means I won

The queen's eldest daughter. I 'ashed him and smashed him as small as flies, And sent him to jamacia to make mince-pies.

2nd Man says.

Thou 'ashed me and smashed me as small as flies, And sent me to jamacia to make mince-pies. Hold thy lies or my blood will rise ! If thou art the King I dare face the.

Then aries a duel between the 2nd man and the King. The King knocks the 2nd man down.

King. Five pounds for a Dr.