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Scotch Riddle.—This has not, so far as I know, been yet recorded. It is from the Buchan district of Aberdeenshire. The answer is a cow being milked.

Children's Rhyme, "The Devil's dead."—(See p. 196.) I find that this was known to Charles Lamb. In his "Letters," vol. i. p. 167 (1837), he says of "Shakespeare's Muse," "I thought she had been dead, and buried in Stratford Church, with the young man that kept her company:—

S. Swithin and Rainmakers.—The article on this subject in last month's issue contains no allusion to S. Médard, who holds this function over Belgium, and the greater part of France. All the departments under the influence of the mistral suffer terribly from want of rain. I have been at many places in the Ardèche, Gard, Drôme, Rhîne, Bouches du Rhone, Var, where the people have declared that it had not rained comme il faut for 20 years, nevertheless they have a quaint version of our " ed sky in the morning," &c.

In the departments bordering the Swiss Alps, the variableness of the climate is testified by the proverb:

S. Médard is the 9th June, and when he rains the idea also obtains that S. Barnabas (11th June) can keep him in check, an idea which