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wife of a considerable landowner, and from what I have heard I presume had received a good education. She had five or six children, and there were in the household many servants, as Mr. Wells was a farmer on a large scale. She told my father, evidently without having any notion that she was exposing her ignorance, that she kept by her two bottles, into one of which she poured what was left of the doctor's medicine which had been prescribed to be taken internally, and into the other the remainder of such lotions as had been sent. She assured my father that she herself and those dependent on her had many times {)rofited by the use of these strange blends. (Cf. supra, p. 73.)
I do not think that the practice of mixing medicines intended for different diseases was at all uncommon in Lincolnshire in former days, and from remarks which I have heard, I believe it to be still not infrequently done, though I confess that I have not satisfactory evidence in proof thereof.
Edward Peacock.
Goblins. I. /;/ Chitral.
I received the following lately from a young officer who was quartered at Chitral for some time. It is interesting to meet again with the '" back-footed " beings on whom M. Gaidoz be- stowed so much learning in Melusine.
A. Lang.
" Fairies in that part of the world [the Chitral valley] are only of one sort — bad ; which rather limits the field. Their abode was on the slope of a gigantic snow-peak, 26,000 feet above the sea, Tirich Mir by name. This they made their headquarters, and many of the inhabitants of the valley ' allowed ' they had seen them flitting to and fro on their marauding expeditions, some on horseback, some on foot, of both sexes, and usually clad in white.
