why do the lower classes, whose "vulgarisms" are, in nine cases out of
ten, more correct than our refinements, still talk about Whitsun Monday
and Whitsun Tuesday, where the more polite say, Whit Monday and Tuesday?

Query II. As I am upon etymologies, let me ask, may not the word _Mass_,
used for the Lord's Supper--which Baronius derives from the Hebrew
_missach_, an oblation, and which is commonly derived from the "missa
missorum"--be nothing more nor less than _mess_ (_mes_, old French), the
meal, the repast, the supper? We have it still lingering in the phrase,
"an officers' mess;" i.e. a meal taken in common at the same table; and
so, "to mess together," "messmate," and so on. Compare the Moeso-Gothic
_mats_, food: and _maz_, which Bosworth says (_A.-S. Dic._ sub voc.
_Mete_) is used for bread, food, in Otfrid's poetical paraphrase of the
Gospels, in Alemannic or High German, published by Graff, Konigsberg,
1831.

H.T.G.

Clapton.

[Footnote 1: The places in the New Testament, where Divine
Wisdom and Knowledge are referred to the outpouring of God's
Spirit, are numberless. Cf. Acts, vi. 3., 1 Cor. xii. 8., Eph.
i. 8, 9., Col. i. 9., &c. &c.]

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FOLK LORE.

_Sympathetic Cures._--Possibly the following excerpt may enable some of