15 AUGUST 1903, Page 18

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."]

SIR,—'.A016,TOP is amp. Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq., corroborates your view that these words occur in Pineal.. Does he not write—

"That an ancient Welsh poet, one Pyndar ap Tudor, Was right in proclaiming: 'Ariston men Baer !' Which means the pure Element Is for man's belly meant' !

And that Gin's but a snare of Old Nick, the deluder" ?