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years, says that a striking feature in the amusement is the enthusiasm of middle-aged and even elderly devotees. "The knotty " is directly suggestive of "the knout," which is the name given in Fifeshire to the ball used in the game. THOMAS BAYNE.

DENDKITIC MARKINGS IN PAPER (9 th S. vii. 389). In Science Gossip for February last, p. 258, is an article by Mr. F. Shillington Scales, F.R.M.S., on this matter, and his words are "I was able to obtain unmistakable reactions proving that the nuclei were indeed nothing but minute particles of copper "; and again :

" I have no hesitation, therefore, in saying that these dendritic spots may now be definitely stated to be formed by the slow oxidisation of a minute spot of metallic copper deposited in the process of paper manufacture into black cupric oxide (CuO)."

The best paper Mr. Scales considers to be old rag -made papers, i.e., old ledgers and account books, and he notes that the paper in such cases is tinted blue : " five-sixths of the dendritic spots submitted to me were found on blue-tinted papers."

S. L. PETTY. Ulverston.

Wood was not used in the manufacture of paper until after 1854, so that the paper upon which the First Series of 'N. & Q.' was printed would be made either from the pure rag or from old paper pulped. S. E.

Was wood pulp in use or even thought of in the early fifties of the last century ? and if so, what has that to do with dendritic mark- ings of magnetite in paper "?

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

"SHUTTLES" (9 th S. vii. 407). In Jamie- son's 'Scottish Dictionary' the meaning of "shuttle" (or "shottle") is given as "a small drawer," and it is doubtless in this sense that Scott uses it in * Guy Mannering,' chap, xxxviii. A. & C. BLACK.

This is a name given to a small shelf or drawer found in the large wooden trunks or " kists" which our grandmothers used for storing their blankets, or linens, or Sunday finery. Such are still to be found in many Scottish homes in the rural districts. They were used to store small articles which from their size might get lost in the capacious recesses of the " kist." W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

[Many other replies are acknowledged.]

PLOUGH MONDAY MUMMERIES (9 th S. vii. 322, 363). There is an account of these rustic amusements to be found, accompanied

with an engraving, in Chambers's ' Book of Days,' vol. i. pp. 84-6. Plough Monday was the first Monday after Twelfth Night, and the ceremonies indicated the resumption of labour after the Christmas holidays. They seem to have differed materially from the * mum- ming" at Christmas, when the play of 'St. George' was usually acted. Allow me to refer your readers who take an interest in these matters to an account of "mumming" given in ' The Return of the Native,' by Thomas Hardy, chap, v., entitled 'Through the Moonlight.' He is in stories of humble life what Robert Bloomfield and John Clare are in poetry. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

"In comes I, ohs [I've?] never been before." "Ohs" is the Lincolnshire form of "who's"=who has. I have seen "o"for " who " in an epitaph in Winterton Church- yard and in a Winterton sampler, and have often heard it. J. T. F.

Durham.

"BERNARDUS NON VIDIT OMNIA": "BLIND BAYARD" (9 th S. v. 356, 441, 506 ; vii. 369). When Roland brave and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died.

The lines concerning which MR. CURRY inquires are in 'Marmion,' canto vi. stanza xxxiii. See also ' Rob Rov,' chap, ii., where Scott unconsciously and unintentionally quoted (not verbatim) a couple of lines from the same stanza of 'Marmion,' just before those quoted by MR. CURRY and myself.

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

Ropier, Hampshire.

[Many other replies are acknowledged.]

SERJEANT HAWKINS (9 th S. vi. 274 ; vii. 154). To clear up a matter touched upon at the earlier reference : I have learnt through the courtesy of the Chapter Clerk that the Nor- wich Chapter Act Book has an entry showing that William Hawkins, D.D., prebendary of Norwich 1667-83, died before the installation in 1683 of his successor. It is therefore clear that he and William Hawkins, D.D., pre- bendary of Winchester 1662-91, were dis- tinct persons.

The Norwich prebendary had a son and a grandson, both also named William Hawkins, who were successively rectors of Simonds- bury : the former from 10 September, 1716, until his death circa 1735, and the latter, his predecessor's son, from 29 April, 1735, until his death circa 1739 ; see Hutchins, ' History of Dorset' (edition 1861-70), vol. ii. p. 245, where it is stated that they were descendants