_Tandem_.--You are aware that we have a practical pun now
naturalised in our language, in the word "_tandem_." Are any of your
correspondents acquainted with another instance?

[Greek: Sigma].


"_As lazy as Ludlum's dog, as laid him down to bark._"--This
comparison is so general and familiar in South Yorkshire (Sheffield
especially) as to be frequently quoted by the first half, the other
being mentally supplied by the hearer. There must, of course, be
some legend of Ludlum and his dog, or they must have been a pair of
well-known characters, to give piquancy to the phrase. Will any of
your readers who are familiar with the district favour me with an
explanation?

D.V.S.


_Anecdote of a Peal of Bells_.--There is a story, that a person had
long been absent from the land of his nativity, where in early life,
he had assisted in setting up a singularly fine peal of bells. On his
return home, after a lapse of many years, he had to be rowed over some
water, when it happened that the bells struck out in peal; the sound
of which so affected him, that he fell back in the boat and died! Can
any of your readers give a reference where the account is to be met
with?

H.T.E.