"_See where the startled wild fowl._"--Where are the following lines to be found? I copy them from the print of Landseer's, called "The Sanctuary." "See where the startled wild fowl screaming rise, And seek in martial flight those golden skies. Yon wearied swimmer scarce can win the land, His limbs yet falter on the wat'ry strand. Poor hunted hart! the painful struggle o'er, How blest the shelter of that island shore! There, while he sobs his panting heart to rest, Nor hound nor hunter shall his lair molest." G. B. W. _Ascension-day._--Was "Ascension-day" ever kept a close holiday the same as Good Friday and Christmas-day? And, if so, when was such custom disused? H. A. HAMMOND. _The Grogog of a Castle._--It appears by a record of the Irish Exchequer of 3 Edw. II., that one Walter Haket, constable of Maginnegan's Castle in the co. of Dublin, confined one of the King's officers in the _Grogog_ thereof. Will you permit me to inquire, whether this term has been applied to the prison of castles in England? J. F. F. Dublin. * * * * * Replies. CANONGATE MARRIAGES. (Vol. v., p. 320.) I had hoped that the inquiry of R. S. F. would have drawn out some of your Edinburgh correspondents; but, as they are silent upon a subject they might have invested with interest, allow me to say a word upon these Canongate marriages. I need not, I think, tell R. S. F. how loosely our countrymen, at the period alluded to, and long subsequent thereto, looked upon the marriage tie; as almost every one who has had occasion to touch upon our _domestic_ manners and customs has pointed at, what appeared to them, and what really was, an anomaly in the character of a nation somewhat boastful of their better order and greater sense of propriety and decorum. Besides the incidental notices of travellers, the legal records of Scotland are rife with examples of litigation arising out of these irregular marriages; and upon a review of the whole history of such in the north, it cannot be denied that, among our staid forefathers, "matrimony was more a matter of merriment"[2] than a solemn and religious engagement.