object for philosophical attack. O! bring back _Jack the Giant Killer_ and the _Arabian Nights_ to our children, and Plato and his followers to new men, and let us have chemistry as we have watchmakers or surgeons (I select purposely honourable and useful callings), as a _division_ of human labour, as worthy profession for a few, not as a glittering master-feature of the education of men, women, and children.--S. T. C." J. M. G. Worcester. * * * * * FOLK LORE. _The ancient Custom of Well-flowering._--At Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, annually, on Ascension Day, a beautiful ceremony called the "well-flowering" takes place; and in it Psalms used by the Church of England are partially employed. It is a popular recognition of the value of those "perpetual fountains which gush out from below the dry wolds and limestone hills, bearing life and beauty on their course,--objects," remarks Professor Phillips in his admirable work on _The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea Coasts of Yorkshire_ (recently published), "on which rustic love and admiration may tastefully bestow the emblematic flowers and grateful songs, which constituted a pleasing form of popular worship in the earlier ages of the world." Perhaps some correspondents of "N. & Q." may be enabled to mention other {281} villages besides Tissington in which this innocent and pleasing custom is still observed. I am aware that there are many places, especially in the north of England, in which a rustic celebration takes place annually at wells sacred from olden time; but is not the "well-flowering" a distinct custom? WM. SIDNEY GIBSON. Newcastle. _Devil's Marks in Swine._--"We don't kill a pig every day," but we did a short time since; and after its hairs were scraped off, our attention was directed to six small rings, about the size of a pea, and in colour as if burnt or branded, on the inside of each fore leg, and disposed curvilinearly. Our labourer informed us with great gravity, and evidently believed it, that these marks were caused by the pressure of the devil's fingers, when he entered the herd of swine which immediately ran violently into the sea.--See Mark v. 11-15.; Luke viii. 22, 33. TEE BEE.