28 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 20

Slit,—Puella Rigensis, as many others will doubtless tell you, is

an old and valued friend. I think I first heard it fifty years ago, and it was then attributed to Arthur Sidgwick, Fellow and Tutor of C.C.C., Oxford.

Here is another, not I think generally known.

There was a young man of West Meath Who sat on his set of false teeth He leapt from his chair And cried in despair "I've bitten myself underneath."

Maethiensis--sed quis mihi credit ?- In dentibus falsis insedit.

Exortus repente Clamavit "Quis dente Se ipse suo prius edit ? "

The author of the Latin version is—or was—a Harrow master.—Yours