RURAL NamEs.
On the subject of names I cannot forbear quoting a para-
graph from a local analysis of the latest register of names in the small city of St. Albans. An ingenious resident has
grouped them under subjects. How Saxon, how mono- syllabic, most of them are !
"Agriculture is well represented by Farmer, House, Barnes, Cribb, Croft, Folds, Land, Field, Greenfield, Mead, Goldstraw, Haycock, Hulme, Coulter, Barrow, Hedges, Gates, Lane, Orchard, Pears, Perry, Wells, Mills, Windmill, Miller and Carter. To cultivate the amble land we have Piers Plowman, while to attend to the Lamb a Shepherd complete with Crook and Hutt. Our farm is well stocked, for we find Bull, Bullock, Steer, Hogg, Lamb, Goat, Kidd and Bee. For the chase we have Hunt, Mares, Cobb, Palfrey, Groom, Gallop, Trott, Ryder, Sadler, Horn, Spurr and Manger, while for quarry we may take our choice of Buck, Hart and Fox."
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