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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. SEPT. 14, 1901.

jacks, swings, and other like amusements. Looking at it from the road, it appears like one street, and I have seen it referred to as the old Cheapside. CHARLES P. PORTER. 11, Brunswick Place, Cambridge.

BARRAS (9 th S. viii. 202). Why not French 1 It is a common name in Southern France.

D.

'AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN ON THE DIFFI- CULTY OF THE CORRECT DESCRIPTION OF BOOKS ' (9 th S. viii. 124, 209). Through the courtesy of a correspondent I am referred to the above as appearing in 'The British Almanac and Companion, 1853,' where I have duly found it.

WM. H. PEET.

" THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE LAND " (9 th S. viii. 186). I am able to add another stanza to dough's Kugby poem if rightly remembered :

In the days when fourteen fellows

Drank out of one large jug, And pewter were the dishes,

And a tin can was the mug ; In the days when boots and shoes

Were three times a week japanned, When the " Island " wan an island, There were giants in the land.

J. B. H.

EARL OF KINNOUL (9 th S. viii. 123). Further examination of the subject has led me some- what to modify the views expressed in my letter published at the above reference, and I now feel that Prof. Gardiner is right in asserting the death of an Earl in the Orkneys in 1649, and that credit is due to him for calling attention to the evidence in support of a fact which has been overlooked by all peerage writers. Of the said evidence the following is a summary. Balfour, in his annals, mentions his name as " George," and his visit to the Orkneys in November, 1649, the date distinguishing him from his father (the second earl of the peerages), and the name from his brother William (the third earl of the peerages).

Gwynn gives the death of an Earl of Kmnoul in the Orkneys at this time, as also does Gordon, adding "whom his brother succeeded." Now all these three writers are contemporary.

The fact that Prof. Gardiner does not mention two such important items as the new peer's Christian name and that he was succeeded by his brother, nor give reference to the pages where these statements occur, offers some explanation for his announcement not having received more immediate and com- plete credence. As to the professor's dis- covery of yet another unknown peer dying

in 1650 I retain my scepticism, for the reasons already given. VICARY GIBBS.

DUBLIN BOOKSELLERS (9 th S. viii. 184). I do not think that any record of the lives and business careers of the principal Dublin booksellers is in existence, beyond an occa- sional obituary notice in the Bookseller. I have, however, a curious jumble entitled ' Fifty Years' Recollections of an Old Book- seller,' published at 67, South Mall, Cork, in 1835, the author being evidently William West, the author of a very interesting series of bookselling reminiscences which appeared in the Aldine Magazine. 1838.

WM. H. PEET.

SONG WANTED (9 th S. viii. 145). The follo\y- ing appears to be a complete version of this song, and will be found in 'The Universal Songster' (n.d.), vol. i. pp. 231, 232: Funny and free are a bachelor's revelries,

Cheerily, merrily, passes his life ; Nothing knows he of connubial devilries,

Troublesome children and clamorous wife. Free from satiety, care, and anxiety,

Charms in variety fall to his share ; Bacchus's blisses and Venus's kisses,

This, boys, this, is the bachelor's fare.

A wife like a canister, chattering, clattering,

Tied to a dog for his torment and dread, All bespattering, bumping, and battering,

Hurries and worries him till he is dead ; Old ones are two devils haunted with blue devils,

Young ones are new devils raising despair, Doctors and nurses combining their curses,

Adieu to full purses and bachelor's fare.

Through such folly days, once sweet holidays

Soon are embitter'd by wrangling and strife : Wives turn jolly days to melancholy days,

All perplexing and vexing one's life ; Children are riotous, maidservants fly at us,

Mammy to quiet us growls like a bear ; Polly is squalling, and Molly is bawling,

While dad is recalling his bachelor's fare.

When they are older grown, then they are bolder grown,

Turning your temper and spurning your rule : Girls, through foolishness, passion, or mulishness,

Parry your wishes and marry a fool. Boys will anticipate, lavish, and dissipate

All that your busy pate hoarded with care ; Then tell me what jollity, fun, and frivolity

Equals in quality bachelor's fare.

T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D.

BRESLAW (9 th S. viii. 16). In 1 N. & Q., 2 nd S. viii. 162, there is an article on Morley's ' History of Bartholomew Fair,' in which may be found the following :

" There are scores of Bartholomew celebrities whose names we vainly look for in Mr. Morley's volume Where is [among others] Higman Pala- tine and Breslau, ' the surprising Juglers/ Of the

latter a capital joke is told. Being at Canterbury with his troop, he met with such bad success that