"The morning of the day on which the farmer was to be buried, was rendered remarkable by the uncommon denseness of an autumnal fog. To Mrs. Mason's eye, it threw a gloom over the face of nature; nor, when it gradually yielded to the influence of the sun, and slowly retiring from the valley, hung, as if rolled into masses, mid-way upon the mountains, did the changes thus produced excite any admiration. Still, wherever she looked, all seemed to wear the aspect of sadness. As she passed from Morrison's to the house of mourning, the shocks of yellow corn, spangled with dewdrops, appeared to her to stand as mementos of the vanity of human hopes, and the inutility of human labours. The cattle, as they went forth to pasture, lowing as they went, seemed as if lamenting that the hand which fed them was at rest; and even the Robin-red-breast, whose cheerful notes she had so often listened to with pleasure, now seemed to send forth a song of sorrow, expressive of dejection and woe."--Miss Hamilton's _Cottagers of Glenburnie_, chap. xii. C. FORBES. Temple. * * * * * Minor Notes. "_In the Sweat of thy Brow_" (Vol. ii., p. 374.).--To the scriptural misquotation referred to, you may add another: "In the sweat of thy _brow_ shalt thou eat bread." The true text reads,-- "In the sweat of thy _face_ shalt thou eat bread."--Gen. iii. 19. The misquotation is so common, that a reference to a concordance is necessary for proving to many persons that it is not a scripture phrase. J. GALLATLY. [In the Wickliffite Bible lately published by the University of Oxford, the words are, "swoot of thi cheer _or face_," and in some MSS. "cheer _ether bodi_."] _Anecdotes of Old Times_ (Vol. iii., p. 143.).--A friend of mine has furnished me with the following particulars, which may, perhaps, be interesting to A. A. When the aunt of my friend married and began housekeeping, there were only two tea-kettles besides her own in the town of Knighton, Radnorshire. The clergyman of the parish forbad the use of tea in his family; but his sister kept a small tea service in the drawer of the table by which she sat at work in the afternoon, and secretly made herself a cup of tea at four o'clock, gently closing the drawer if she heard her brother approach. This clergyman's daughter died, at an advanced age, in 1850. My friend's mother (who was born a year or two before the battle of Culloden), having occasion to visit London while living at Ludlow, went by the waggon, at that time the only public conveyance on that road. A friend of her's wished to place her daughter at a school in Worcester, and as she kept no carriage, and was unable to ride on horseback, then the usual mode of travelling, she _walked_ from her residence in Knighton to Ludlow, and thence to Worcester, accompanied by her daughter, who rode at a gentle pace beside her. WEDSECNARF.