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time it is an unmitigated superstition. What is the connection that is supposed to exist between foong-shooy and the loong I do not know. The " pulse of the loong " is a very vital point in the foong-shooy of a city. All changes in the landscape must be made with caution, lest harmful modifications of ^q foong-shooy take place. Foreign buildings, constructed in utter disregard of it, are viewed with dislike ; while there is no telling what confusion and disaster might arise from the making of a taiboad through the country. — The Missionary Herald (quoted in The Church of Scotland Home and Foreign Missionary Record, 1 Sept. 1884).
Irish Gaines of Ball. — The Irish games of ball (or stick), described at p. 264 of the September number of the Folk-Lore Journal, will be found referred to in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, under the names of ^^ stool-hall " and *' tip-catj^ See also Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities for a description of the game of cat and dog, as played in Angus and Lothian, extracted from Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary, The cat is well known in Yorkshire ; and a form of stool-ball, under the name of rounders, is a sport common to both boys and girls in this district. Duck-stone also is played here. C. Staniland Wake.
The Wifle and her Kidie. — I have met with another version of " The Wifie and her Kidie," which varies slightly from the one given at pp. 277, 278, vol. ii. of the Folk-Lore Journal. It was communi- cated by Mrs. Walker, aged 76, Aberdeen. It begins thus : —
There wiz a wifie sweipit her hoosie clean, an she fan twal pennies, an she geed to the market an she bocht a kidie, an she said to the kidie : " Noo, kidie, ye'U rin hame, till I gaither a puckle sticks to my ain fire- en."
- ' Niver a lenth," said the kidie. " I hiv as muckle need o' sticks
to my ain fire-en."
Then the story goes on almost word for word till the wifie appeals to the cat : — " O cat, gin ye wid catch that moose, I wid gee you milk fin I milk the coo." So the cat to the mouse, &c. and the kidie ran hame till the wifie gaithert sticks till her ain fire-en.*
Walter Gregor.
- See for such cumulative folk-tales Bihlioteca de las Ib'adioiones Fppulares
Uspanoles, vol. iv. pp. 123-126.
