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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. ix. JUNE K, 1902.

were of different sizes and 'get-up.' No one going shire, and I never once heard it pronounced <- i %^n M ,ij _;ui m ;o4.i, A ~ *. *v,~ I j-^ j t wag a i wavs la'dke; and a mill hand

off work was a-ld'dkin. I fancy thousands of North-Countrymen could tell F. J. C. that this is so, if they would take the trouble. My conjecture was that an Irishman, talking of a man "larking," would talk of him as a-far'r'ktn; and that, with an Australian- Irish origin, the word spelt larrakin came to represent a rough of Australian cities. Against this conjecture F. J. C., with crisp criticisms of MR. BALDOCK'S items and my own, sets what, so far as I see, is only another conjecture, viz., Is not larrakin in the first place the name of a person 1 (I suppose he means a surname.) If he knows that this is so, surely he had better say so plainly. I do not know it. I have only found people asking what the origin of the word is. To the best

to a bookstall could possibly mistake one for the other. The plaintiff said his publication was always called the Field, and that the defendants' publica- tion would also be called the Field, and, of course, the shorter title of a paper was commonly used. But the jurisdiction to interfere rested on property, and it was not shown that a person going to buy the plaintiff's paper would buy the defendants' magazine and so injure the plaintiff's property. After disposing of other points raised by the plaintiff, his Lordship said these questions might require further consideration at the trial, but on the materials before him he could not grant an interlocutory injunction."

WM. H. FEET.

ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF KAILWAY COM- PANIES (9 th S. ix. 409). In reply to one of the points raised, I quote the following from 'The History of the Midland Railway,' by C. E. Stretton, p. 351 :

"The dolphin is on the left, the salamander on of my knowledge the word is comparatively the right, and the wyvern on the top of the shield, of recent origin. If F. J. C. ridicules ^tne At the time of the Saxon Heptarchy Leicester was idea that larking comes from lake (la'dke), the capital of Mercia, and the wyvern was the crest can ne tell us what to lark (and larking) does ol the 6 Km k a^ a q d U o a pt e ed in a! -me from 1 Webster does not tell us. F. J. C.

the crest of the Leicester and Swannington line, i concerned about the intrusion pi an r. out of which sprang the present Midland Railway. The Irishman intrudes two r s in larking, but Hence its forming an important part and parcel of then he does not bother about letters so much the Midland Company's coat of arms." as J\ J Q d oes< The cockney intrudes one

Being interested in railway history, this is (possibly - . -D T n \ ... unu.,

a branch that I should like to know more " about, and I should be very glad to hear from MR. BRINDLEY direct if he cares to write me as below. G. W. J. POTTER.

Bedford Road, South Woodford.

so does F. J. C.) in " Charncery Lane " and " barsket," &c. An actor of note, we saw (in these columns under the head of 'Rather,' ante, p. 275), intruded an r into gape (garp) ; so I do not see that the matter of the r intruded into la'dke (whence larking, as I conjectured, and thence larrakin) is worth contesting. BOSCOMBROSA.

SHERIFFS OF STAFFORDSHIRE (9 th S. ix. 342, 415). See list from 31 Hen. 1. to 4 Edw. III.

BREAKING BREAD AT TABLE (9 th S. ix. 406)' When quite a child, I was told that the reason why it was more proper to break bread rather than cut or bite it was because

bread was broken by Christ on the occasion I in ''Thirty-first Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Last Supper. At some of the "love of Public Records,' published in 1870, pp feasts," as held in Mid -Derby shire fifty years 340-343. W. D. MACRAY.

ago, the bread which was handed round T _ ,_. Q. ___ ^_ x

was first broken into small portions ; in GENESIS I. 1 (9* h S. ix. 269, 3,7).-There some other parts of the county it was cut in are certain grammatical nonentities which, small cubes. THOMAS RATCLIFFE if nofc explained away, serve as old bogies to

Worksop. dismay the neophyte ; one such is the Cjrerman

prefix ge, ga in Gothic, and we are told to

CASTOR SUGAR (9 th S. ix. 307, 417). Sugar | take no notice, it means nothing ; but its

casters are now re-introduced, and very I origin has not been traced, general at eating - houses kept by Swiss, Similarly eth in Hebrew, a mere re- French, and German proprietors ; they are dundancy, is called a sign of the accusative

much larger than somewhat bulky.

pepper

casters, indeed

ABSENS.

" BARRACKED " How F. J. C.

in grammar, but we have no grammar old enough to serve as valid authority so I take it we should resort to earlier stages of lan- (9 th S. ix. 63, 196, 232, 355). guage, in which it may have represented a knows that the N.C. word I" determinative," in pictorial language, to

lake, to play (or be "off work"), "should be pro- point out the object indicated. In plain

nounced lek, not Idk" I do not gather. I English, the particle "it" stands as repre-

am a West Riding man, and can " talk York- sentative, and to illustrate the usage I ven-

shire," and have lived half my life in York- ture to transliterate the opening verse, in