is borrowed from the following by the Chevalier de Cailly (or d'Aceilly, as he writes himself) entitled,-- "_La Mort du Sieur Etienne_. "Il est au bout de ses travaux, Il a passé le Sieur Etienne; En ce monde il eut tant des maux, Qu'on ne croit pas qu'il revienne." Another well-know epigram,-- "I do not like thee, Doctor Fell," is merely a version of the 33d epigram of the first books of those by the witty Roger de Bussy, Comte de Rabutin:-- "Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas, Je n'en saurois dire la cause, Je sais seulement une chose; C'est que je ne vous aime pas." Lastly, Prior's epitaph on himself has its prototype in one long previously written by or for one John Carnegie:-- "Johnnie Carnegie lais heer, Descendit of Adam and Eve, Gif ony con gang hieher, I'se willing gie him leve." S.W. SINGER * * * * * FOLK LORE. _Easter Eggs_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--The custom recorded by Brande as being in use in the North of England in his time, still continues in Richmondshire. _A Cure for Warts_ is practised with the utmost faith in East Sussex. The nails are cut, the cuttings carefully wrapped in paper, and placed in the hollow of a pollard ash, concealed from the birds; when the paper decays, the warts disappear. For this I can vouch: in my own case the paper did decay, and the warts did all disappear, and, of course, the effect was produced by the cause. Does the practice exist elsewhere? _Charm for Wounds._--Boys, in his _History of Sandwich_, gives, (p. 690.) the following from the Corporation Records, 1568: a woman examined touching her power to charm wounds who-- "Sayesth that she can charme for fyer and skalding in forme as oulde women do, sayeng 'Owt fyer in frost, in the name of the Father, the Sonne, and the Holly Ghost;' and she hath used when the skyn of children do cleve fast, to advise the mother to annoynt them with the mother's milk and oyle olyfe; and for skalding to take oyle olyfe only." W. DURRANT COOPER. _Fifth Son._--What is the superstition relating to a fifth son? I should be glad of any illustrations of it. There certainly are instances in which the fifth son has been the most distinguished scion of the family. W.S.G.