Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 by Various
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_The Darby Ram_ (Vol. ii., p. 71.).--There is a whimsical little volume, which, as it relates mainly to local matters, may not have come under the notice of many of your readers, to which I would refer your querist H.W. It is entitled,-- "Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners ten years ago. Manchester, 1833." cr. 8vo. It is anonymous, but I believe truly ascribed to a clever young bookseller of the name of J.S. Gregson, since dead. At page 185. he gives twelve stanzas of this ballad, as the most perfect copy from the oral chronicle of his greatgrandmother. In _The Ballad Book_ (Edinb. 1827, 12mo.), there is another entitled "The Ram of Diram," of a similar kind, but consisting of only six verses and chorus. And the _Dublin Penny Journal_, vol. i., p. 283., contains a prose story, entitled "Darby and the Ram," of the same veracious nature. F.R.A. _Rotten Row and Stockwell Street._--R.R., of Glasgow, inquires the etymology of these names (Vol. i., p. 441.). The etymology of the first word possesses some interest, perhaps, at the present time, owing to the name of the site of the intended Exhibition from all Nations in Hyde Park. I sent to the publishers of _Glasgow Delineated_, {236} which was |
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