" JACK AND JILL."
[To ren EDITOR OF THE " fiesersrea,"1 Sus-s-In the notice of Nurse Lovechil 4' 8. Eega,cy in your issue of Ootob011 7th you speak of "Jack and Jill" leaving "poor Jill Wog there ge]atinously helpless.at the foot of the fatel hill," Apparently you do not remember the verse which does not leave Jill " gelatinonsly " prone where she fell, hot brings her home soon after Jack, but—alas! pops girl—to an unduly painful reception. It runs thus
When Jill came in How she did grin To see Jack's paper plaster.
The Dame whipt she Across her knee For laughing at Jack's disaster."
I would protest against the substitution in the second stanza of the versiou quoted by you of the namby-pamby "And went to bed To mend his head With vinegar and brown paper" for the original vigorous, though perhaps not elegant% "The Dame did the job To plaster his nob With vinegar and brown paper."
—I am, Sir, has G. T. W.
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