19 MAY 1894, Page 19

"CHURCH FOLK-LORE."

I TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—The tale quoted by your reviewer in the Spectator of May 5th from "Church Folk-Lore," may be found in Mr. Baring-Gould's interesting book, " Post-Mediieval Preachers," London, 1865, p. 16, where the writer gives it as being probably a bon. mot of Father Andre. I do not know who the curate of Cottennam was nor where he lived, yet the story seems an