_Sayers the Caricaturist._--In Wright's _England under the House of
Hanover_, vol. ii. p. 83 _n_., it is stated that James Sayer, the
caricaturist, "died in the earlier part of the present century, no
long time after his patron, Pitt." In _Sepulchral Reminiscences of a
Market Town_, by Mr. Dawson Turner (Yarmouth, 8vo. 1848), p. 73
_n_., the caricaturist is called Sayers, and is said to have died on
the 20th of April, 1823.

C.H. COOPER.
Cambridge, Dec. 29. 1849.


_May-Day_.--To what old custom does the following passage allude?

"It is likewise on the first day of this month [May]
that we see the ruddy milk-maid exerting herself in a
most sprightly manner under a pyramid of silver
tankards, and, like the virgin Tarpeia, oppressed by the
costly ornaments which her benefactors lay upon her."
--_Spectator_, No. 365.

MELANION.

[Our correspondent will find much curious illustration of this now
obsolete custom in Strutt's _Sports and Pastimes_ p. 357. (ed.
Hone), where the preceding passage from the _Spectator_ is quoted;
and we are told "these decorations of silver cups, tankards, &c.
were borrowed for the purpose, and hung round the milk pails (with