JUNIOR ATHENÆUM CLUB, PICCADILLY, W. DEAR SIR,-- On turning over the leaves of _Notes and Queries_ I happened on your enquiry _re_ "Tormentor for your fleas." May I ask, have you succeeded in getting at the meaning or origin of this curious street cry? I have tried to trace it, but in vain. It occurs to me as just possible that the following circumstance may bear on it:-- The Japanese are annoyed a good deal with fleas. They make little cages of bamboo--such I suppose as a small bird cage or mouse-trap--containing plenty of bars and perches inside. These bars they smear over with bird-lime, and then take the cage to bed with them. Is it not, as I say, _just possible_, that one of our ancient mariners brought the idea home with him and started it in London? If so, a maker of bird cages or mouse-traps is likely to have put the idea into execution, and cried his mouse-traps and "flea tormentors" in one breath. Faithfully yours, DOUGLAS OWEN. * * * * * _From "Notes and Queries," April 18th, 1885._ LONDON CRIES.--A cheap and extended edition of my _London Street Cries_ being on the eve of publication, I shall be glad of early information as to the meaning of "A dip and a wallop for a bawbee"[A] and "Water for the buggs."[12] I recollect many years ago reading an explanation of the former, but am doubtful as to its correctness. ANDREW W. TUER. The Leadenhall Press, E.C. * * * * * One who was an Edinburgh student towards the end of last century told me that a man carrying a leg of mutton by the shank would traverse the streets crying "Twa dips and a wallop for a bawbee." This brought the gude-wives to their doors with pails of boiling water, which was in this manner converted into "broth." NORMAN CHEVERS, M.D. HANG 32, Tavistock Road, W. _April 18th, 1885._ * * * * * COCKNEY PRONUNCIATION. 25, ARGYLL ROAD, KENSINGTON, W., _24th April, 1885_. DEAR MR. TUER,--