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EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 39. ***
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 39.] SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:--
Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass." 129
Folk Lore:--Sympathetic Cures--Cure for Ague--Eating
Snakes a Charm for growing young. 130
Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. Rimbault. 131
A Note on Spelling,--"Sanatory," "Connection." 131
Minor Notes:--Pasquinade on Leo XII.--Shakspeare
a Brass-rubber--California--Mayor of Misrule and
Masters of the Pastimes--Roland and Oliver. 131
QUERIES:--
The Story of the Three Men and their Bag of Money. 132
The Geometrical Foot, by A. De Morgan. 133
Minor Queries:--Plurima Gemma--Emmote de Hastings--Boozy
Grass--Gradely--Hats worn by Females--Queries
respecting Feltham's Works--Eikon
Basilice--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting
Guest"--Carpets and Room-paper--Cotton of Finchley--Wood
Carving in Snow Hill--Walrond Family--Translations--Bonny
Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse--Franz von Sickingen--Blackguard--Meaning
of "Pension"--Stars and Stripes of the American
Arms--Passages from Shakspeare--Nursery Rhyme--"George"
worn by Charles I.
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