buildings did not exceed one foot in height. There were a great number, each constructed and owned by different sets of children, the chief of whom, shell in hand, accosted the passers by and said the following verse:
"Please remember the grotto,
It is but once in a year,
Mother is dead, and father's gone to sea,
So will you please remember me."
122, Coningham Road, Uxbridge Road, W.
17th September, 1895.
THE GARHWAL.
(Vol. vi. p. 301.)
"Rather like an Angel."
I feel sure the words will not bear the sense Miss Broadwood gives them. It is just one of those delightful phrases which the Baboo coins by the score. He has a marvellous memory for English idioms, and a marvellous genius for mixing them up. He says: "The house presented a second Babel, or a pretty kettle of fish," and congratulates himself on the eloquence of the expression. If any one will read that most interesting book, India in 1983, he will see a perfectly correct representation of Baboo English.
W. H. D. R.
THE LUPERCALIA.
(Vol. vi. p. 280.)
What authority is there for supposing that the women ran about in Nature's garb at the Lupercalia? It was the youths, and they wore a goatskin.
W. H. D. R.
