21 FEBRUARY 1914, Page 18

A MISQUOTATION.

[To TIM Roma or Tor "Svrenvor."3

Srn,—In your article on "The Octavio, Hill Memorial"

(Spectator, February 14th) you mention the rhyme referring

to Tintock. This is given as- " On Tintock Hill there is a kist And in the kist there is a mist. . ."

May I be allowed to say that this is a misquotation ? Dr.

John Brown, in his Teems the Door-Keeper, quotes the lines- as—

"On Tinto& tap there is a Mist And in the Mist there is a Kist. . . ."

His idea is of a Kist (chest) surrounded by a "luminous cloud "—not of a cloud shut up in a " am, Sir, &a.,

DOROTHY H. NonitrAx.

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