"BROTHER STOCKDOLLOGER."
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sis,—In your issue of the 4th inst. you refer to an allusion to "Brother Stockdolloger " as "cryptic." The else which yen suggest is the correct one. Ho was the lending character is an amusing story, by Charles Reside. entitled "Cn10(101 Quackenboss's Conversion." published in Household Worsh many years ago. Colonel Qoackenhoss was a bully who cysts. poetically' assaulted the members of a certain itinerant Mission called the Chace-Walking Brethren (American, of course). HP encountered, however, one Brother Stockdolloger, a converter
prim-fighter, who dealt so effectually with him that he pre- sented himself at the penitent form at the next meeting of the Brethren. A phrase from this story has Passed into our common speech—" taking it lying elown."—I am, Sir, he.,
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