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Ar the Bridgewater arms, the poor traveller who arrives in the night mail can get no tea, "the key is not left out." This is because cold meat and spirits pay better. There is in the room an Argands lamp, a stationer's almanack, a list of constables, pawnbrokers, and fire engines on one paper, and on another a table of the posts, when they enter and when they go out.

THE mayor of Stafford has a very beautiful mausoleum near the road side. I never saw a building in better taste.

AT Congleton, an immense silk manufactory; the largest I ever saw in front.

GREAT glasses on the mantelpiece at Stowe, said by the waiter to be 100 years old.

PSALMODY is regularly taught in these northern counties. Once in five or six years a teacher comes to Keswick, and all the young in the parish who have good voices, learn of him at their own expense; it is a part of education as regularly as dancing is. They teach in the church, and the bell rings at evening, after all other work, for the purpose. This is necessary every five or six years, because by that time they are in want of tenors. After the teaching, the poorer parents go about asking money, to help bear the expense.

Nightingales heard in Lord Lonsdale's gardens at Whitehaven, 1808.

Forty years ago they slept naked in this place.1

Mrs. Wilson's father, who was clerk of the parish, had only one shirt with sleeves, which was for Sundays.

When last in Legberthwaite, I saw a little water wheel made by the boys in a dyke by the road side; an interesting boy's work.

Candlemas is the day for lending money here,—the nearest Saturday to it, or if it be in the middle of the week, the two near

1 i. e. at Keswick. Legberthwaite mentioned below is near Leathes' Water.-J. W. W.

est. Men who never appear in the market any other day come then, with their money bags. "The shabbiest coats," says Mr. Edmondson, "carry the money bags to market, and the sprucest rides home with it."

HALF way up Skiddaw I saw scratched

on a stone:

“Hail, lofty hill !

Thee whom great nature bade arise,
And lift thy lofty summit to the clouds.
Hail, lofty mountain, hail!"

View from the bottom of the first summit, where the vale and lake are seen lying immediately below; the mountain arch forming the foreground, and the whole descent lost.

The ladder at Bowder stone is now painted white, and has a rail on each side; a complete ladies' ladder! being thereby rendered seemingly more safe, and really less

secure.

Newcastle.-ON the way from Durham three coal waggons travelling up hill by steam. Patent shot tower-it declined from the perpendicular—a man proposed to undermine it on the opposite side, and load that side so as to make it sink. It was done, and the building sinking on one side became

again perpendicular. But the patent is evaded by dropping shot down an old coal pit.

The castle has a draw-well half-way up. The entrance through a lousy-looking old clothes house. One church whose tower Sir C. Wren said was worth coming from London to see. The walls threatened with de

struction.

Monkchester its old name.

NEAR Moffatt, a dog used for many years to meet the mail and receive the letters for a little post town near.

RAMJAM House between Stamford and Grantham.

CARR'S Folly, near St. Helen's. How

surely these pleasure houses of one generation, become monuments in the second!

Whitton le WeIR.-Castle there, and tomb to Mr. Farrel, erected in the church by his pupils.

mently suspected of witchcraft had cattle also on the waste, and twice or three times prevented him from going to see his mare by saying she had seen her, and he need not go. At last, however, he went. He found ¦ the mare dead in the midst of a thicket, standing upright, her head raised, her eyes

Tuis odd inscription over an inn at Gar- wide open. This woman went on crutches. stang

"Address to Commercial Travellers. So much opposition from the south, and from the head inn and second inn, I can expect but little. Yet to that little every attention shall be paid, by good supplies, moderate charges, and grateful acknowledgment."

DANVERS addressed Mr. Lightbody by the name of Heavysides. A better blunder of

the same kind was made to a schoolmistress near Reading, whose name was Littleworth, and who was once addressed Mrs. Goodfornothing.

--an unlucky lad had once offended her, i and she began to strike him with her crutches, he ran away, but in vain, she followed as fast as a greyhound, beating him with both crutches, till she had well nigh killed him. There was an old elm in the village where she lived, one bough of which grew out at right angles from the tree; it was the general belief that she had bent it down to that shape by riding upon it.

THERE is a wild tradition of Sir Francis Drake current in Somersetshire, that when he set out on his voyage he told his wife if he was away ten years she might then marry

HUNTINGDON, S. S. has married Lady again. Ten years elapsed, during which Saunderson, once Lady Mayoress.

Madam Duck was as true as Penelope, but when they were over she accepted the offer A PONY bought at Banbury and taken to of a suitor. On her way to church a huge London, found his way back. James Rick-round stone fell through the air close by ards knew the circumstances. A sheep her, and fixed upon the train of her gown, driven from Radnorshire into Essex for the London market, returned to his old pasture two succeeding years. This poor Thomas assured me of, naming place, owner, &c.

THE dust at Christ's Hospital. — It has been made a question at law whether the Hospital can dispose of it, or whether it belongs to the Ward of Farringdon Within, in which it is situated.

STAGE Coaches write licensed to carry so many insides, which is useless, because they cannot by any possibility stuff in more; it is the number of outsides that ought to be specified to public view.

BURNETT's uncle and the night-mare. He tells us this other story. He had a mare turned out in Sedgemoor-a woman vehe

and she turned back, for she said she knew it came from her husband. It was not long before he returned, and in the shape of a beggar asked alms of her at his own door: in the midst of his feigned tale, a smile escaped him, and she recognized him and led him in joyfully. The stone still remains where it fell. It is used as a weight upon the harrow of the farm, and if it be removed from the estate always returns.

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BULL baiting. They had a better sport at Ispahan-a wolf was turned loose in the Meidan, and the mob baited him without weapons, and indeed without hurting him. They only provoked him by flapping their cloaks at him and shouting, and the amusement was to see one half the crowd running away while he pursued, and the other following, hallooing and teasing him till he turned, and they in turn took to flight. A fellow or two got bit sometimes, but with so many at hand no serious mischief could ever be done. Shah Abbas was often a spectator of this sport.

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which used to come and feed there. An annual song about this.

Their silver cups at the college are called ox-eyes, and an ox-eye of wormwood was a favourite draught there. Beer with an infusion of wormwood was to be had nowhere else.

Boar's head at Queen's. The legend that a scholar of this college walking out and studying Aristotle, was attacked by a wild boar, whom he killed by thrusting the book down his throat, and choking him with logic.

A row of elms before Balliol gateway, 1771. The old hall had its central fire, and every member of the University had a right once a year to spend an evening there, and be treated with bread and cheese and ale, on condition that when called upon he should either sing a song, tell a story, or let a —. Can this be true? Where did the five's court stand?

An urn at St. John's containing the heart of Dr. Rawlinson.

Here is the portrait of Charles I. of which the face and hair contain the whole Book of Psalms-the writing forming the picture.

Altar-piece at Wadham. Cloth of ashes colour, the linen and shades in brown crayon, the lights with a white one. These were pressed on with a hot iron, which producing an exsudation from the cloth, so fixed them that they were proof against a brush. Isaac Fuller was the artist, who lived in the 17th century. The subjects are these-the Last Supper, Abraham and Melchisedec, and the Gathering the Manna-well drawn.

St. Mary Hall, the heart of the principal Dr. Key in a marble vase.

SOME fifty years ago, when there were scarcely any houses between Ely Place and the Foundling Hospital, at one of these houses, then considered as in the country, there was a little boy about three years old who used to have his bason of bread and milk given him for his breakfast; and to eat it sitting upon the step of the door. It was

noticed that he became hungry unusually soon after breakfast; but one day the mother overheard him talking at his meal. "Now your turn, now my turn, now your turnno, no, you take too much-my turn now." Upon this she looked to see who it was that shared the child's breakfast; and she could see nobody; but coming nearer she perceived a snake, who it seems came regularly from his hole in the opposite bank to breakfast with the boy upon bread and milk. I am afraid the poor reptile paid his life for this intimacy.

THE Philipsons of Colgarth coveted a field like Ahab, and had the possessor hung for an offence which he had not committed. The night before his execution the old man (for he was very old) read the 109th Psalm as his solemn and dying commination, v. 2. 3. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. The curse was fully accomplished; the family were cut off, and the only daughter who remained sold laces and bobbins about the very country in which she had been born to opulence.

BRISTOL water in clean vessels may be kept for any length of time. This has been attributed to the lime which it contains. A pint of quicklime should be put into every butt of water when it is filled.

SEPT. 1808. A supernatural appearance at Woolwich,—a faint but very evident blue light in two windows of the rigging house, sometimes at one sometimes at the other, appearing and disappearing at unequal intervals. The inside of the windows was stopped with double canvas, and therefore it could not possibly proceed from any thing in the room. It was from the churchyard that it was visible, and hundreds assembled there. A sentinel was said to have left his post on first discovering it, the sentinels therefore, report added, had all been dou

bled. The ready solution was that it was the ghost of a man who had hanged himself in the rigging house. A little investigation ascertained that it was the reflection of a light from an apple stall on Parson's Hill, a rising ground opposite, a little to the east of the churchyard, and it was sometimes at one window, sometimes at the other, as people stopped at the stall and impeded the light.

A SIR SIMEON STUART is said in looking over some family paper to have met with a memorandum that 15000 (00?) pieces of gold were buried in a certain field, so many feet from the ditch, towards the Forth. He dug there, and found the money in a large iron pot, with these words written on a parchment which covered it, "The devil shall have it sooner than Cromwell."

BACK-SCRATCHer. Macgill, vol. 2, p.136, says that certain dervises in Turkey use them, because they are not permitted to scratch themselves with their fingers.

SOME fifty or sixty years ago, Henry Erskine travelling through Winsley Dale, halted at Askrigg, and while his horse was resting, inquired of the landlord whether there was any thing in the neighbourhood worthy of a stranger's notice. The landlord answered with alacrity that there was, and that he should be happy to show it him. Boniface led him not to the falls of the Ure, nor to Hardra Scar, but into a field which had a cow-house in it, and a solitary tree besides, like all the fields at the upper end of that beautiful dale where it runs up into the mountain. "There, Sir," said the landlord, rubbing his hands with delight, "do you see that cow-house, Sir ?" "Yes." "And do you see that tree, Sir? That, Sir, is a very remarkable place-under that tree, Sir, Rockingham was foaled."

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