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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. xn. JULY 17, im
a hillock and a mullet arg. Crest : 2 arms
embowed holding an anchor. Motto :
" Servare modum, naturam sequi, ftnemque
tueri." Underneath :
Few know my Face, tho' all Men do my Fame ;
Look strictly, and you '11 quickly guess my Name :
Through Deserts, Snows and Rain I made my Way,
WORDS AND PHRASES IN OLD
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
(10 S. xi. 469; xii. 10.)
Buffer. Under the form " bufa " this word will be found in the 'N.E.D.' in the sense of a dog ; while under " buffer " Farmer and Henley give no fewer than eight definitions in their ' Slang and its Analogues.'
Caly. Years ago I noted at p. 80 of
DUTCH BOY AND THE DYKE. I shall be I Romans's * Florida ' the following passage, greatly obliged if some reader can give me | describing the Indian r " - 1 1 - fc "
My Life was daily risqu'd to gain the Day !
Glorious in Thought 1 but now my Hopes are gone ;
Each friend grows shy, and I 'm at last undone.
"Feint par L. Tocque". Et grave" par J. G. Will en 1745. Sold by B. Cole, the corner of King's Head Court, near Fetter Lane, Holborn."
E. H. BATES.
dates and authorities for a Dutch tale.
jame of " chunke
" They make an alley of about two hundred
The incidents relate to a brave boy who, feet in length, where a very smooth caly
finding a leak in a dyke as he was going ground is laid, which when dry is very hard ";
home somewhat late at night, stopped the and I concluded that " caly " was a mis-
place with his hand until he was relieved | print for clay. ^ '~ "*- *"""
overflowed.
A. G.
for clay. Romans's work contains
next morning by some passer-by, and so various typographical peculiarities, some saved the neighbouring village from being | intentional, some not.
Campus. The " accurately dated instance prior to 1880 " MR. THORNTON will find in a paper printed in the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts for March, 1897, iii. 431-7. The word arose in 1774 exactly how is not known at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), whence it and
until about everywhere The latter
FLINT PEBBLES AT BRIGHTON. Brighton
beach is covered with more or less rounded
flint pebbles, caused, of course, by the action
of the sea, with comparatively few broken
or chipped. Inland, everywhere, are to be
found immense quantities of pieces of flint,
indications that they were once more or less
round, like those on the beach unbroken
or unchipped pieces being as few, I should
say, as broken pieces on the beach. Can
any reader of ' N. & Q.' explain this ?
J. BROWN. 88, St. Leonard's Road, Hove.
spread south, then
1870 it had supplanted almost
the earlier " college yard."
term, one of the earliest of
Americanisms, was in use at Harvard
College in 1639, still remains in use there,
and was employed at Princeton when the
word " campus " originated. MR. THORN-
TON is mistaken in defining " campus " as
the common expression for a college
playground." At a few colleges the word
LORY OR LAWRY FAMILY. I should be
flad of any information concerning this imily. Richard Lory of St. Anthony,
Cornwall, married in 1681 at St. Keverne, has" this restricted meaning, but usually it Cornwall, Emblyn Kyner. Their great- means the college grounds in general, grandson Jacob of St. Keverne married | Cradley. I take this to be an adjective
formed from " cradle." If so, " cradley land " is land where it is necessary to use a cradle, " a light frame of wood attached to a scythe, having a row of long curved teeth parallel to the blade, to lay the corn more evenly in the swathe " (' N.E.D.').
Dandles. In The Salem (Mass.) Gazette of 18 Dec., 1812, are the following lines, taken from an Albany paper of 9 Dec. : He goes, he goes, the Conqueror goes Clap your dandles, shake your toes."
there in 1773 Alice Harvey of Grade. One
of his sons was William, Commander R.N.
I especially want to know who were Jacob's
brothers and sisters, and who their descend-
ants are. T. W. PENDARVES LORY.
Lowestoft.
EARII OF BRISTOL'S HOUSE. Where was the Earl of Bristol's house in the City in 1628 ? (Rev.) S. SLADEN.
63, Ridgmount Gardens, W.C.
BEC-EN-HENT," HOUSE-NAME. Can any " He comes, he comes, the General comes
of your readers kindly explain the origin Bite your fingers, suck your thumbs. "-
and meaning of these words ?
J. HERBERT.
These lines, whether from
pretended "old ballad,"
real or merely
perhaps a
are
