31 JANUARY 1914, Page 33

[To THE EDITOR or TIM nErECTATOR.”] SID“—" I doubt "

means, or meant over eighty years ago, in Keswick, "I fear." When I was under ten years of age I indulged in a calf-love with Helen—the fifteenth child, by the way, out of seventeen or eighteen children—and I asked her to kiss me and she answered : "I doot y'are a bad lad."—I am,