20 AUGUST 1904, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent of August

13th asks for a third "quartering." Allow me to submit to you the coat-of-arms as it was given to me many years ago by a Yorkshireman. It runs thus : A flea, a fly, a magpie, and a flitch of bacon. A flea, because he will bite his best friend ; a fly, because he will drink from anybody's cup ; a magpie, because he will chatter with anybody; a flitch of bacon, because he is no