Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-28

| u"t w var OIL The following verse from
Priors tlC6i-iTaE "Hand Cssvei." Illus
trates the application OF the psoverb
| :,,nce, therefore, Ills 10 co,nb,i evil
,ittasiul % EMPLOY the dcyu:
l Forthwith the dcsll did ear;
| ftr name lin aud hes aiways nesr.
| Ire Dern and Tom Walker. Amer
team proyerb. used "a q caution To tsurers.
TSe story Of liz origin is delightfully."- told
by Washington Irving in "TaIes OF Ira
1e'ief.' Tom Walker wa poor, mLserty
man. born IN Massachusetts, in l7si. and it
y SAID that he sold himSeif to the devil
Tor wealth. BE tins rs It may. Tom sud
DENY became very ricb, and opened
countiug-honsc in Boston curing
the money panic which prevailed in the
| time OF Governor Belcher. By usnry he
| grew richer and richer; but one day, rs he
| was icfeciosing a mortgage with 4 poor
ispt-iobbcr, block mar on a black horse
| knocked at the Office door. Tom wcat to
| open Il. and was never seen sSain. OF
c0urSe The good people OF Boston searched
his ollCe. but all his cotsrs were found
empty. and during the night bis house
caught lire and was burned TO the ground.
(dtc1rOW. This unique II not very
cuphoDio,ls word i defined by Professor
Skeat IN his "Etym. Engtish Dictionary "
thus :" To cry 9s q cat; formed frOm cat
and the verb ,cnuc, 10 make noise like a
cat. with The addition OF to give the verb
q fIequCD;alive force " A writer TO Notes
and Qderies, referring to Professor Skest's
definition OF the word. has the boldness to
say:
IL an 80 accustomed 20 bow with defer
cnce Ia Professor Saest's dellyeranccS thai
nothing short al complete conviction would
induce me to dispute any OF them. Now.
a somewhat extensive reading OF sixteenth
and scvcniecnth-century books gables
ne 10 say that the word cdterDrm
H. uniformly employed as the dis
tinctiyc verb for The melancholy job
Der OF apes and monkeys; OF dts
unctiye Of that Is pitter was OF tue grass
hopper's cEiTp, and the boom OF the bit
terms cry. The Use OF caterwaul to eK.
press The nocturnal cry OF the cat is com.
paraiiSeiy late, aud 50 Ear from the verb
having any otymoioeical connection with
TIC name Of that animal. ii was solely the
prevalence OF mistaken ctym0'0gy which
OccasiOned the tranSerencc OF Tue term
from the simian 10 the cat. l venture 10
suggest Thai lis ctymoi0gy is caieT-chlttcr
and 7cdUi-waii."
To this Prof. Skeat responds:
al merely give the old ctymology found
in Bailey and 1odd's Johnson" The
statement that it is unconnG cted with cat is
pure assumption, and do not see cow II
can be maintained IN The face OF the extract
IRON Chsuccr, which l., so cIreiuiy
ignored, though Pope rightly understood
IT. Phillips. in 1906, explains cot,erloGui
II eats; Scwel, in 1854. translates
IL by an equivalent Dutch word,
hGfteagelOi. In any ease. | shall moi all
nit that rail and ,oQW are the same word
al and an ore different sounds. Wall j.
formed, by vowel change, from the Scan
dinayian for no but 1cqUi from the NJ. T..
ecdtccn. TO or! way. The I il frequentl-
tive; CT. =. mialilcr. To "mewi. or new
hike catV (Coteraye); Ital., miqGOtare
lFloiio). 4 for cater. Ia chatter, do not
know where t. find It in Middle English.
Wcbster's derivation OF The term agrees
with that Of Johnson.
what 3 cdfeI1cdtffpo do You keep hertl
-ShatSPeGre. T,oeifth NigW. fr. ,.
80 The Way Of al WeSh.-I'his welt
known proyeTbial expression occurs in Il.
Ilc,Wo0d's "The GOiden Age" 1911, vol
iii p. 10, (PcarsOn's reprint. 1874:
Ciown.-l have no mind 10 this buffet
ing. lie wake after fairc and softly. in
houe that all the buileting may be done be-
fore | come. Whether had | better 90
home by land or by sea- II / 20 by land
aud mscarry, tbcu 20 the ray Of al flesh.
The phrase Is evidently taken from
Joshua XXiii., IL, Tor |. Kings H., -:
And behold this day am going the toay
If at the eartA."
MOc0SSia.--1his word, which j. also
found writtfh ntOccdsSin. 0toccosio, aud
qpOccoSOH. is derived FROM one oi the dia-
iccls Of the Aigonkin, signifying shoe or
SHOES. In the Shycnne dialect. and IN that
IL. l. ..tfs x.lsr Ri
i-mOk-ci and ~ 'kdSin in the singular mum
Der. In the other dialects the plural il Vi
riOu>lY written mOscGsU3, mGcliSS1t,
md6iiiSSi,,, m0tLiSsia0. etc. "Other dia-
lectS" include Old Algonkin, Illinois,
KniIinareX, East Chippewa, MaS>achu-
sets, NarragauScii. Minsi. and NanlicOh.
Bobby ShGftO'S Gone 10 ,Se0.-The fol-
lowing version OF this well-knOwn nursery
song ~ gwen by Sir Culhb6rt Sharp. in
The " Bishoprick Glriand.' London:
hobby shafios gone To- sea,
SIlysr buckles ~ his bncr.
Hen come back aud m Try me.
.OnBy Bobby shsitO.
Bobby Slafto', br gbi and isir.
Combing down his yellow lfur;
Iic'- my aln for ever mar
Bouny Bobby Shsfto.
sir Culhbcrt adds the following mote:
There are various additional sttnzl, 10
this old soug, bul the verses given above
appear the most ancient. An apocryphgl
verse SAYS.
robhy >hiiiO'- rr,ien = bairn.
Inr H. dangie on his arm
ou bis ARM snd on hi knee,
BOBBY rhaito loves me.
This SONG Wa, used for cCctipneering
purposes ~ l1Gl. when Robert >haitO, OF
NhitwoItll, England. candidate ior Pallia-
mcnt. wa, popularity called Benny Bobby
ShaltO':
Bobby shafio's booking ont.
NJ his ribbons hew about.
AZ lie ladies gave sut-
iicy. Tor Bnhby shaitpt
LdU C0pora.-A familiar application
iocn-cly conferred on GeBer0i BOmIpIric