above the earth were popularly looked upon as steam derived from the kitchens of hares, dwarfs, and other fairy folk.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

brouet in the above phrase, the meaning of Hase must be haze.

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That the word Hase in Low German must 'hare,' have another meaning besides 'chine," and "stocking" is almost certain According to H. Berghaus's Sprach- when we consider that Hees or Heze schatz der Sassen: Wörterbuch der Platt- is of pretty frequent occurrence as a geodeutschen Sprache,' 1880-84 (a work unfortunately left unfinished, owing to the graphical name to the east of the Rhine, north of Siegen, and is occasionally met author's death, comprising the letters with to the west of the Rhine, near Crefeld. A-Paddeln), the phrase "De Hase brouet In Nomina Geographica Neerlandica is still current in Low German, in the very I read that the etymology and original same sense as quoted from the Bremen meaning of this name are unknown, but that 'Wörterbuch.' But there is, likewise, an the old form "Hasibenna for Heesbeen ancient and metaphorical folk-lore expression in North Brabant points to an older form which still survives in modern High Hasi," the i having changed the a into e. German poetical and proverbial language, While consulting 'Het Nederlandsch regarding a low mist or cloud closely pressing Woordenboek' I happened to come across upon the mountain or meadow. People the Flemish verb hazegrauwen to grow say, that subterranean goblins are brewing dark, which is supposed to be a compound when such clouds or vapours rise, so to of haas=hare and grauw=grey, dusk; the speak, out of their kitchen. And again, is said to het hazegrauwt expression The hare has brewed " ("Siehe da brauet mean It is growing so dark or grey that a der has im weisslichen Dampf auf der hare, which is also grey, can no longer be Wiese," Voss's 'Idyll,' quoted in Grimm's distinguished." "Wörterbuch,' ii. 322). H. KREBS.

"De Hase brouet, sagt man in Niedersachsen, wenn an Sommer-Abenden sich plötzlich ein dicker Nebel über den Erdboden zieht, der sich nicht hoch erhebt, sondern in der Ferne wie eine Wasserfläche aussieht. Engl. Haze."

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According to Dr. Berghaus, the only other meanings of Hase are chine stockand ing." The fact that the explanation of the phrase occurs under Hase=hare led me to think that the phrase might be metaphorical, the hare being compared to a brewer, more especially as I remembered the following passage in Dickens's Christmas Carol' To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale."

The hare plays more than one part in the imagination of the people of Northern Germany; why not that of a brewer ?

When, however, I looked up the word brouet, I was referred to bro'en (brugen, bruggen), under which verb, strange to say, Dr. Berghaus does not mention the phrase "De Hase brouet." But he does tell uswhat seems to me of great importancethat, besides to brew " and "to boil," this verb means steigen, sich erheben, i.e., to rise." Now if this is the meaning of

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I may add that I am looking for the origin of haze and hazy in another direction, and the results of my researches I hope to publish in these columns before long. J. F. BENSE.

Arnhem, the Netherlands.

I would refer PROF. SKEAT to Grimm's Dictionary,' vol. iv. ii. p. 527a, and the references there given. The hare plays a prominent part in German folk-lore. He lays the Easter eggs, roasts chickens, bakes bread (Hasenbrot), &c. The fox brews as well as the hare. Every child in North and Middle Germany knows that the hare and the fox brew. So do the mountains, especially the Brocken. Eng. haze must be of different origin. H. C. G. BRANDT. Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.

Domesday Book and their respective valua- and puzzling case. The suspicions of the tions. One curious rating is Mellinges, expert have fallen upon a young lady, and 47. 10s. and 2,000 eels. If your correspond- at a critical stage of his investigations he ent is unable to find a copy in a local library, I shall be happy to send further information direct on application. WM. JAGGARD. Liverpool.

The windmills in Sussex in 1905 were 30 wind, 20 wind and steam, and 4 wind and water. I take these figures from the return published in the last edition of Kelly's Sussex Directory,' 1905.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS.

Library, Constitutional Club.

THE LEIÇARRAGAN VERB (10 S. iii. 267). -It has not, I think, been pointed out that there are variants in certain copies of Leiçarraga's Baskish New Testament of 1571, at least in the earlier chapters of the Gospel of St. Matthew. When the author and his assistants, mentioned in one of the prefaces, were discussing the merits of the newly printed pages, they found time to change in the copy at Hamburg, and (as I am informed by M. le Professeur Henri Gavel, du Lycée de Bayonne, who studies Baskish) also in that at Bayonne, diotsó into diotsa, iv. 6, 9, 10; diroano into deçaqueano, v. 26; and drauanari into drauánari, v, 40.

pauses to consider the position in all its bearings. He is represented as running over in his mind all that can possibly be advanced against the suspect; and finding that in the aggregate it does not amount to much, he is fain to solace himself with a "Even if she did philosophical summary.

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all these things," he sententiously reflects, it might not amount to much, but it is the mickle that makes the little, and the little the lot." It would be curious to know what meaning is attached to the term mickle by the writer of this cryptic intimation. Apparently, the belief is that the signification is akin to that of the Latin hilum, out of which came nihilum and nihil, and which one school of etymologists used to define as "the black spot on a bean." The statement as it stands affords a striking illustration of how a faintly remembered proverb may be completely misrepresented.

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66 ADESPOTA (10 S. vii. 105).—In Liddell and Scott the second meaning of άdéσTOTOS without owner, anonymous, Dion. H. 11, 50, of reports or writings, Plut. Cic. 15, &c."

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In Epist. ad Fam.,' xv. 17, speaks of rumores tristiores, sed a'déσTOTO."

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wise, but they are not credited, by reason that they "There are certain reports, rather bad than othercome from no certain places."

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It is evident that these copies can be considered correcter than those which differ (those of the Bodleian Library, the British Museum, and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for instance), because after chap. xx. one never finds diotsó in the whole of the translation, but only diotsa. It is a pity that the all but quite correct reprint produced at Strassburg in Elsass in 1900 should have been taken from the copy at Leipzig, in which the stop-press improvements were not made. It may be that, while my Analytical Concordance to the 920 Verbal In the latter translation the reference is Forms used in St. Matthew's Gospel' is x. 20. being composed at the Oxford University Press this year, I shall light upon other words which were altered by the pioneers at La Rochelle, who worked for the Queen of Navarre, grandmother of the consort of King Charles I. of England. E. S. DODGSON.

"MONY A PICKLE MAKS A MICKLE" (10 S. vi. 388, 456; vii. 11, 112).-In connexion with what has been said on this subject, it may not be amiss to mention the occurrence of a very curious and diverting variant. In a clever and well-written novel by a lady, published about the middle of February, the author has occasion to state the difficulties of a detective over a very intricate

Some flying reports indeed have been spread that things do not go well there: but they are reports without authority."

Bergk, in his Poetæ Lyrici Græci,' Lipsia, 1853, p. 1044, calls the ownerless fragments "Fragmenta adespota": Nauck, in his Tragicorum Græcorum Fragmenta, Lipsiæ, 1856, p. 648, calls them " Adespota.' In Lexicon Ciceronianum Marii Nizolii,' 1820, appears Adespotos, auctore carens ROBERT PIERPOINT. et principe." FRENCH QUOTATION (10 S. vi. 88).-The passage quoted by J. B., beginning with the words Je ne voudra. pas reprendre mon cœur de cette sorte," is from the Vie Dévote' of St. Francis of Sales, third part chap. ix., the title of the chapter being De la Douceur envers nous-mêmes.' J. B.

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brouet in the above phrase, the meaning of Hase must be haze.

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That the word Hase in Low German must JAS. PLATT, Jun. have another meaning besides "hare," chine," and "stocking" is almost certain According to H. Berghaus's Sprachwhen we consider that Hees or Heze schatz der Sassen: Wörterbuch der Plattis of pretty frequent occurrence as a geodeutschen Sprache,' 1880-84 (a work unfortunately left unfinished, owing to the graphical name to the east of the Rhine, north of Siegen, and is occasionally met author's death, comprising the letters with to the west of the Rhine, near Crefeld. A-Paddeln), the phrase De Hase brouet In Nomina Geographica Neerlandica is still current in Low German, in the very I read that the etymology and original same sense as quoted from the Bremen meaning of this name are unknown, but that 'Wörterbuch.' But there is, likewise, an the old form Hasibenna " for Heesbeen ancient and metaphorical folk-lore expression in North Brabant points to an older form which still survives in modern High Hasi," the i having changed the a into e. German poetical and proverbial language, While consulting 'Het Nederlandsch regarding a low mist or cloud closely pressing Woordenboek' I happened to come across upon the mountain or meadow. People the Flemish verb hazegrauwen = to grow say, that subterranean goblins are brewing dark, which is supposed to be a compound when such clouds or vapours rise, so to of haas hare and grauw=grey, dusk; the speak, out of their kitchen. And again, het hazegrauwt is said to The hare has brewed ("Siehe da brauet mean It is growing so dark or grey that a der has im weisslichen Dampf auf der Wiese," Voss's Idyll,' quoted in Grimm's hare, which is also grey, can no longer be distinguished." "Wörterbuch,' ii. 322).

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H. KREBS.

According to Dr. Berghaus, the only other meanings of Hase are chine and stocking." The fact that the explanation of the phrase occurs under Hase hare led me to think that the phrase might be metaphorical, the hare being compared to a brewer, more especially as I remembered the following passage in Dickens's Christmas Carol'

To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale."

The hare plays more than one part in the imagination of the people of Northern Germany; why not that of a brewer ?

When, however, I looked up the word brouet, I was referred to bro'en (brugen, bruggen), under which verb, strange to say, Dr. Berghaus does not mention the phrase

I would refer PROF. SKEAT to Grimm's Dictionary,' vol. iv. ii. p. 527a, and the references there given. The hare plays a prominent part in German folk-lore. He lays the Easter eggs, roasts chickens, bakes bread (Hasenbrot), &c. The fox brews as well as the hare. Every child in North and Middle Germany knows that the hare and the fox brew. So do the mountains, especially the Brocken. Eng. haze must be of different origin. H. C. G. BRANDT.

Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.

WINDMILLS IN SUSSEX (10 S. vii. 149).— The most exhaustive history of naturedriven mills is to be found in Bennett and Elton's History of Corn-Milling,' 1899, "De Hase brouet." But he does tell us- 2 vols., 8vo. The second volume deals with what seems to me of great importance-water- and wind-mills, supplying that, besides "to brew" and "to boil," this of and information on Fishbourne. verb means steigen, sich erheben, i.e., "to ton, and Rye, together with a lis rise." Now if this is the meaning of hundred Sussex water-mills