1 AUGUST 1908, Page 16

"I MAK' SICCAR."

[TS THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sta,—In speaking in last week's Spectator of the above as the Red Comyn's words you are putting the murderer's saying into the mouth of the victim. Do you not remember "The Lord of the Isles ":—

" Vain Kirkpatrick's bloody dirk, Making sure of murder's work"?

Eversley, Poole.

[We have no explanation to offer of so palpable a slip as making Kirkpatrick and the Red Comyn change places except to attribute it to the demon of perversity.—En. Spectator.]