The two fives are marked or scored separately, and the diagonals thus form a series of alternations, which, when repeated, form a scale of ten, the tally of the _coalwhippers_. The "navvies" of the railroads carry this principle somewhat further. They form a cross with two diagonals on the perpendiculars, and count for ten; then, by repeating the process, they have a division into tens, and count by two tens, or a score. I. J. C. _Kiss the Hare's Foot._--This locution is commonly used in some parts of the United Kingdom, to describe what is expressed by the Latin proverb: "Sero venientibus ossa." Will any of your readers be so good as to explain the origin of the English phrase? HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, May, 1851. _Old Dog._--Can any correspondent of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform me where "old dog" is used in the same sense as in _Hudibras_, part ii. canto 3. v. 208.:-- "He (Sidrophel) was old dog at physiology?" P. J. F. G. "_Heu quanto minus_," &c.--From what author is this passage taken? "Heu quanto minus est cum aliis versari quam tui meminisse." J. O. B. Loughborough. _Lady Russell and Mr. Hampden._--Extract from a letter of Rev. Alex. Chalmers, dated London, Feb. 10th, 1736-7: "Mr. Hampden[1] has had the misfortune to lose 5000_l._ by Lady Russell.[2] She was a Lady of good sense, and great piety in appearance, and made many believe she had a private way of tradeing which brought seven or eight per ct. to the adventurers, by which means she got above 30,000_l._ put in to her hands, and for which she only gave her Note to put it to the best advantage; for some years the interest was well paid, but at her death no books nor accts were found, and the principal money is all lost. She had a jointure of 2000_l._ a year, but that goes to her Son-in-law, Mr. Scawen, Knight of the Shire for Surry: her dissenting friends are the chiefe sufferers." [Footnote 1: M.P. for Buckinghamshire.] [Footnote 2: "Sept. 2. Lady Russell, mother of the wife of Thomas Scawen, Esq., Kt. of the Shire for Surrey, and wife to Sir Harry Houghton, Bt. She had an excellent character."--_Gent. Mag._, vol. vi., 1736, p. 552. She had been previously married to Lord James Russell, 5th son of William, 1st Duke of Bedford, to whom she bore the daughter mentioned above. What was her maiden name?] Is anything more known of this story; and, if so, where is the account to be found? DE CAMERA. _Burton Family._--Roger Burton, in the reign of Charles I., purchased of the Earl of Chesterfield lands at Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, co. Derby, which remained in the possession of his descendants for more than a century. Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to inform me how he was connected with the Burtons of Lindley and Dronfield. E.H.A. _"One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine."_--Longfellow, in his exquisite little poem on "Flowers," says: