_de cassidi_ burssa, _de sacello t. sacciperio_ kiula _de cassili_ burissa, _de sacello t. sacciperio_ kiulla. Another Gloss in Graff's 1st vol. p. 192., on the word _Cadus_, may perhaps throw some light on the subject. The philological student need not be reminded of the wide application of the word _vas_, Lat., _fazz_, O.G., and _faet_. A.S.; but for my own part, I conclude that the shoewright intended to designate by _higdifatu_ all sorts of _leathern budgets_. Every Anglo-Saxon student must be so sensible of the great obligation he is under to our distinguished scholar Mr. Thorpe, that I trust it will not be deemed invidious or ungracious to point out another passage in this _Colloquy_ which seems to have hitherto baffled him, but which it appears to me may be elucidated. To the question, "Hwilce fixas gefehst thu?" the fisherman answers, "Aelas aud hacodas, mynas, aud aelputan, sceotan aud lampredan, aud swa hwylce swa on waetere swymath, _sprote_." Mr. Thorpe, in the 1st edition of his _Analecta_, says, "What is intended to be meant by this word [_sprote_], as well as by _salu_ [the correspondent word in the Latin], I am at a loss to conjecture." In his second edition, Mr. Thorpe repeats, "I am unable to explain _salu_ otherwise than by supposing it may be an error for _salice_. In his _Glossary_ he has "spro't, ii. 2.? sprout, rod?" with a reference to his note. I must confess I cannot see how the substitution of _salice_ for _salu_ would make the passage more intelligible, and the explanation of _spro'te_ in the _Glossary_ does not help us. The sense required appears to me to be, _quickly, swiftly,_ and this will, I think, be found to be the meaning of _sprote_. In the Moeso-Gothic Gospels the word _sprauto_ occurs several times and always in the sense of _cito, subito_; and though we have hitherto, I believe, no other example in Anglo-Saxon of this adverbial use of the word, we are warranted, I think, in concluding, from the analogy of a cognate language, that it did exist. In regard to the evidently corrupt Latin word _salu_, I have nothing better to offer than the forlorn conjecture that, in monkish Latin, "_saltu't_" may have been contractedly written for _saltuatim_." Dr. Leo, in his _Angelsâchsiche Sprachproben_, has reprinted the _Colloquy_, but without the Latin, and, among many other capricious deviations from Mr. Thorpe's text, in the answer of the shoewright has printed _hygefata_! but does not notice the word in his _Glossary_. Herr Leo has entirely omitted the word _sprote_. S.W. SINGER. Jan. 14. 1850. * * * * * LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING.