"A girl at Gaddesden, having the evil in her Feet from her Infancy, at eleven years old lost one of her toes by it, and was so bad that she could hardly walk, therefore was to be sent to a London Hospital in a little time. But a Beggar woman coming to the Door and hearing of it, said, that if they would cut off the hind leg, and the fore leg on the contrary side of that, of a toad, and she wear them in a silken bag about her neck, it would certainly cure her; but it was to be observed, that on the toad's losing its legs, it was to be turned loose abroad, and as it pined, wasted, and died, the distemper would likewise waste and die; which happened accordingly, for the girl was entirely cured by it, never having had the evil afterwards. Another Gaddesden girl having the evil in her eyes, her parents dried a toad in the sun, and put it in a silken bag, which they hung on the back part of her neck; and although it was thus dried, it drawed so much as to raise little blisters, but did the girl a great deal of service, till she carelessly lost it." DAVID STEVENS. Godalming. _Fig-Sunday._--One of my Sunday-school boys, in reply to my question "What particular name was there for the Sunday before Easter?" answered "Fig-Sunday." Can you give any authentic information as to the origin of this name? It most probably alludes to our Saviour's desire to eat fruit of the fig-tree on his way from Bethany on the _Monday_ following. Hone mentions that at a village in Hertfordshire, more figs are sold in that week than at any other period of the year; but assigns no reason for the custom. If you have met with any satisfactory explanation of this name, I shall feel obliged by your making it public. B. D. * * * * * NOTE ON A PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS. Butler, in his description of Hudibras, says (Part I. c. i. line 453.) that the knight "----wore but one Spur, As wisely knowing, cou'd he stir To active Foot one side of 's Horse, The other wou'd not hang an A----." Gray, the most copious annotator on the poem, passes these lines in silence; and it is probable, therefore, that the description is taken by readers {69} in general as an original sketch. I find, however, in a volume entitled _Gratiae Ludentes: Jests from the Universitie_, by H. L., Oxen. [sic], London, 1638, the following, which may have been in Butler's mind:-- "_One that wore but one Spurre._ "A scholler being jeer'd on the way for wearing but one Spurre, said, that if one side of his horse went on, it was not likely that the other would stay behinde."