30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 13

PROVERBS.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer who wrote concerning proverbs in your last issue may like to hear the two following, both of which come " from below." I heard them in course of conversation with rustics. I have since looked into a largo published collection of proverbs, but find neither : (I) "There's no spoiling addled eggs." (2) "Them as don't scrat cha'n't peck."—I am, Sir, he., C. B. MOUNT.