C.B. asks, "Is not the derivation of 'feast' and 'fast' originally the same? that which is appointed connected with 'fas,' and that from 'fari?'" I should say no; and let me cite the familiar lines from the beginning of Ovid's _Fasti_:--{12} "Ne tamen ignores variorum jura dierum Non habet officii Lucifer omnis idem. Ille Nefastus erit per quem tria verba silentur: Fastus, erit per quem lege licebit agi. Neu toto perstare die sua jura putâris; Qui jam Fastus erit, manè Nefastus erat. Nam simul exta Deo data sunt, licet omnia fari; Verbaque Honoratus libera Praetor habet." The _dies festus_ was not only not _dies fastus_, but _dies nefastus_. Without going beyond _feast_ and _fast_, I see nothing in C.B.'s suggestion better than the old derivations of the words _feast_ from _festus -um_, and _fast_ from the Anglo-Saxon; nor indeed anything half so good. _Feast_ and _fast_ are opposed in meaning: our word _fast_ has a meaning which neither _fas, fari_, nor _fastus_, nor all three together, will explain. CH. * * * * * +Replies to Minor Queries.+ _The Badger's Legs_ (Vol. i., p. 381.).--In answer to one of your correspondents, who inquires whether there is any allusion to the inequalities of the badger's legs previous to that made by Sir T. Browne:-- "And as that beast hath legs (which shepherds fear, 'Yclept a badger, which our lambs doth tear), One long, the other short, that when he runs Upon the plain, he halts, but when he runs On craggy rocks, or steepy hills, we see None runs more swift or easier than he." Browne's _Britannia's Pastorals_, B.I. Song 5. A.D. 1613. J.F. BOYES. _Twm Sion Catti_ (Vol. i., p. 456.).--Seleucus observes that Twm Catti flourished between the years 1590 and 1630. I have seen the original pardon, under the great seal, countersigned Vaughan, and bearing date 15th Jan., 1st of Elizabeth (1559). The pardon extends to-- "Thome Johns, alias Cattye, nuper de Tregaen in Com. Cardigan, Genº., alias dict. Thome Johns, alias Catty ae Tregaem, in Com. Cardigan, Generoso, alias dict. Thome Jones, alias Catty, Gent., sen quocunque alio nomine vel cognomine seu additione hominis cognitionis dignitatis, officii sen losi idem Thomas cognatur, vocetur seu nuncupetur," &c. &c.; and includes "omnia escapia et cautiones." I have written the extract without all the contractions in the original. J.M.T. May 21. 1850. _Christian Captives_ (Vol. i., p. 441.).--R.W.B. may probably obtain valuable information from the trustees of Lady Mico's Charity. See Attorney-General _v_. Gibson, 2 _Beavan_, 317. (_n_.) A note on that case may not be uninteresting, as showing the vast increase of a fund originally small. Lady Mico, in 1670, gave 1000_l_. to redeem poor slaves. In 1686 this fund was laid out in the purchase of land.