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Similarity of Traditions 513 Pixey Legends 514 The Pool of the Black Hound 515 Popular Rhymes 515 Minor Notes:--"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde"-- Inscription on an Alms-dish--The Use of the French Word "savez"--Job's Luck--The Assassination of Mountfort in For folk Street, Strand--The Oldenburgh Horn--Curious Custom--Kite--Epitaph on John Randal--Playing Cards 515

QUERIES:-- Dragons: their Origin 517 John Sanderson, or the Cushion Dance; and Bab at the Bowster 517 Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by J.H. Friswell 518 Minor Queries:--Boiling to Death--Meaning of "Mocker"--"Away, let nought to love displeasing" --Baron Münchausen--"Sing Tantararara Rogues all," &c.--Meaning of "Cauking" 519

REPLIES:-- The Wise Men of Gotham, by J.B. Colman 520 Replies to Minor Queries:--Master John Shorne-- Antiquity of Smoking--Meaning of the Word "Thwaites"--Thomas Rogers of Horninger--Earl of Roscommon--Parse--The Meaning of "Version" --First Paper-mill in England--"Torn by Horses" --Vineyards--Cardinal--Weights for Weighing Coins--Umbrella--Croziers and Pastoral Staves 520

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 523 Notices to Correspondents 524 Advertisements 524

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NOTES.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCOTTISH BALLADS.

In the ballad of "Annan Water" (Border Minstrelsy, vol. iii.) is the following verse:--

"O he has pour'd aff his dapperpy coat, The silver buttons glanced bonny; The waistcoat bursted aff his breast, He was sae full of melancholy."

A very unexpected effect of sorrow, but one that does not seem to be unprecedented. "A plague of sighing and grief," says Falstaff. "It blows a man up like a bladder."

A remarkable illustration of Falstaff's assertion, and of the Scottish ballad, is to be found in this Saga of Egil Skallagrimson. Bodvar, the son of Egil, was wrecked on the coast of Iceland. His body was thrown up by the waves near Einarsness, where Egil found it, and buried it in the tomb of his father Skallagrim. The

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