ANOSARFADA

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Frank's emendation of Sir W. Beach Thomas's story calls for the companion story also current in the days of my youth. This was a bill sent in for stable requisites :— s. d.

4 tin pails ..

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4 0

2 wood do. •• 2 0 2 wooden do. 2 0 2

0 Presumably those that " wooden do " were returned.—I am, Sir, &c., NORMAN D. WALKER. 3 Ellison Place, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Somewhere about 1907 I read the Duke of Argyll's Passages from the Past, and copied down the following :

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Osafada • • .. 10 6 Atakinonimomo • . • • .. 2 6 13 0 A few years ago a young lady was reading my note book and remarked, " You have got this wrong. The following is the version my father had when he was at Oxford in the sixties" :

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d.

Irovanosansha .. 10 6 Afortheos

1 0

Atakinonimome .. . • •• 2 6 14 0

Hameringham Rectory, Horncastle.