There was room here for differences of opinion. Sappho, Mrs. Browning, Vittoria Colonna, Christina Rossetti, Jean Ingelow and Mrs. Hemans all found advocates, but the majority said Sappho, whilst Mrs. Browning made a good second. Certainly, Sappho, “the tenth muse,” has the advantage in world-wide fame. To quote a sensible competitor, “Perhaps the dimness of distant ages clinging to her and her poetry spread a romantic glamour over her works; still, duly considering all these points, we, though hesitatingly, concede the palm to Sappho.” =10. How is a rainbow a sign of bad weather in the morning, and a sign of good weather in the evening?= One of the last papers we looked at ventured on the assertion that this is a “popular delusion.” However, almost all our competitors were on the other side and gave reasons for the fact. It was a query that had been taken pains over. The reasons, it should be added, were in some cases not very firmly grasped, so it may be useful to everybody—the “popular delusion” competitor included—if we quote the following from the “Salmonia” of Sir Humphry Davy:— “A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun; and in the evening the rainbow is in the east and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains in this climate are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates that the bad weather is on the road by the wind to us; whereas the rainbow in the east proves that the rain in these clouds is passing from us.” =11. Has a besieged town ever been saved by a pig?= This was a stumbling-block. We are within the mark in saying that a hundred and fifty competitors did not answer at all. A good many others answered wrongly, and one girl frankly denied that such an incident ever took place. “A besieged town,” she says, “never has been saved by a pig.” The pig story we had in view in framing the question was connected with Taunton. When that town was besieged during the Civil War, the garrison of the Castle were at last reduced to a single pig. “As, however, they wished to persuade the besiegers that they were well off for provisions, they drove the solitary and unfortunate animal round the ramparts, pricking it occasionally to make it squeal. The enemy soon retired, naturally thinking there was no chance of starving out a garrison who had such an unlimited supply of bacon.” Another pig story was given by several competitors, connected with the siege of Rennes in Brittany by the English about the middle of the fourteenth century. In this case a pig was used to decoy into the besieged town, that they might serve as food for the famished inhabitants, a large herd of swine, regarding which the English foe had quite other intentions. =12. How fast can an expert penman write?=