H.

[2] All places in the neighbourhood of Alderley Edge and Mobberley.


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ANTIQUARIAN SCRAPS.

(_To the Editor._)


I went the other day over the ruins of St. Dunstan's, and whilst gaping
about, saw over one of the portals (inside) an old harp, with an
inscription, which, as far as I could make it out, ran thus:--

St. Dunstan's harp against a wall,
Upon a pin did hang'a,
The harp itself, with ly' and all,
Untouched by hand did twang'a.


The harp was supposed to play by itself on St. Dunstan's Day: ly' means
lyre.

Can any of your intelligent correspondents inform me why there is an
elder tree in all the Palace Gardens?

There is at the back of Old London Bridge, on this side, a street called