=Taffy=, a Welshman. The word is simply Davy (_David_) pronounced with aspiration. David is the most common Welsh name; Sawney (_Alexander_), the most common Scotch; Pat (_Patrick_), the most common Irish; and John (_John Bull_), the most common English. So we have Cousin Michael for a German, Micaire for a Frenchman, Colin Tampon for a Swiss, and Brother Jonathan in the United States. =Tag=, wife of Puff, and lady’s maid to Miss Biddy Bellair.--D. Garrick, _Miss in Her Teens_ (1753). =Tahmuras=, a king of Persia, whose exploits in Fairy-land among the peris and deevs are fully set forth by Richardson, in his _Dissertation_. =Tails= (_Men with_). The Niam-niams, an African race between the gulf of Benin and Abyssinia, are said to have tails. Mons. de Castlenau (1851) tells us that the Niam-niams “have tails forty centimetres long, and between two and three centimetres in diameter.” Dr. Hubsch, physician to the hospitals of Constantinople, says, in 1853, that he carefully examined a Niam-niam negress, and that her tail was two inches long. Mons. d’Abbadie, in his _Abyssynian Travels_ (1852), tells us that south of the Herrar is a place where all the _men_ have tails, but not the females. “I have examined,” he says, “fifteen of them, and am positive that the tail is a natural appendage.” Dr. Wolf, in his _Travels and Adventures_, ii. (1861), says: “There are both men and women in Abyssinia with tails like dogs and horses.” He heard that, near Narea, in Abyssinia, there were men and women with tails so muscular that they could “knock down a horse with a blow.” John Struys, a Dutch traveller, says, in his _Voyages_ (1650), that “all the natives on the south of Formosa have tails.” He adds that he himself personally saw one of these islanders with a tail “more than a foot long.” It is said that the Ghilane race, which numbers between 30,000 and 40,000 souls, and dwell “far beyond the Senaar,” have tails three or four inches long. Colonel du Corret assures us that he himself most carefully examined one of the race named Bellal, a slave belonging to an emir in Mecca, whose house he frequented.--_World of Wonders_, 206. The Poonangs, of Borneo, are said to be a tail-bearing race. _Individual Examples._ Dr. Hubsch says that he examined at Constantinople the son of a physician whom he knew intimately, who had a decided tail, and so had his grandfather. In the middle of the present (the nineteenth) century, all the newspapers made mention of the birth of a boy at Newcastle-on-Tyne with a tail, which “wagged when he was pleased.” In the College of Surgeons at Dublin may be seen a human skeleton with a tail seven inches long. _Tails given by way of Punishment._ Polydore Vergil asserts that when Thomas á Becket came to Stroud, the mob cut off the tail of his horse, and in eternal reproach, “both they and their offspring bore tails.” Lambarde repeats the same story in his _Perambulation of Kent_ (1576).