22 JUNE 1918, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OVTHE " SPECrATOR."3 SIR,—Perhape the following, which,

more years ago than I care to remember, was currently reported at Oxford to have been per- petrated in the pass Divinity School, may be familiar to' some of your older readers:— Question: " Translate yezonevos ooAnz6Fpwros ittikafty."

[He was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost.]

Answer: " He became a Skolekobrote and died in the enjoyment of that office."

—I am, Sir, &a., H. C. IRR'IN. Mount Irwin, Tynan, Co. Armagh.