"And so I pass to the great and glorious occasion of this day, wh gives us manifold cause of praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for ... mercies and deliverances. For ye happy success of her Majesty's arms both by land and sea [under the] Duke of Marlborough, whose fame now flies through the world, and whose glorious actions will render his name illustrious, and rank him among the renowned worthies of all ages. Had that threatning Bullet, wh bespattered him all over with dirt, only that he might shine the brighter afterwards; had it, I say, took away his Life, he had gone down to the grave with the laurels in his hand." Is this incident of the bullet mentioned in any of the cotemporary accounts of the battle? E. _Etymology of "till," "until."_--Many monosyllables in language are, upon examination, found to be in reality compounds, disguised by contraction. A few instances are, _non_, Lat. ne-un-(us); _dont_, Fr. de-unde; _such_, Eng. so-like; _which_, who-like. In like manner I believe _till_, to-while, and _until_, unto-while. Now _while_ is properly a substantive, and signifies _time_, corresponding to _dum_, Lat., in many of its uses, which again is connected with _diu_, _dies_, both which are used in the indefinite sense of _a while_, as well as in the definite sense of _a day_. _Adesdum_, come here a while; _interdum_, between whiles. If ~te~ (Gr.) is connected with this root, then ~este~, to-while, till. Lawrence Minot says, "_To time_ (till) he thinks to fight." _Dum_ has the double meaning of _while_ and _to-while_. E. S. JACKSON. _Dog-whipping Day in Hull._--There was some time since the singular custom in Hull, of whipping all the dogs that were found running about the streets on October 10; and some thirty years since, when I was a boy, so common was the practice, that every little urchin considered it his duty to prepare a whip for any unlucky dog that might be seen in the streets on this day. This custom is now obsolete, those "putters down" of all boys' play in the streets--the new police--having effectually stopped this cruel pastime of the Hull boys. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to give a more correct origin of this singular custom than the one I now give from tradition: