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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

city wall;
They have ma rched from far away
Ere the dswning of the day.
And the morning saw them masters Of
Cremona
The Incident finds its place in history
on the first February day OF 1892; Prince
Eugene had taken all OF Cremona but the
water gate. where Major Dan O'Mahony
with six companies from Limerick and
from Glare, called from the straw with
out time TO pull on their brooches. All
day long they fought tho grenadiers OF
Austria; the stirring tale Is too long TO
quote entire, but II Is to be found in Bur
ton stevenson's Home Book OF Verse"
The passage from a day OF valiant battle
to peace at eventide Ia good war and
good Irish;
Just two hundred Irish lads are shouting
on the wall;
Four hundred more are lying who can
hear no slogan call:
But what's the odds of that7
For It's all the same to Pat
II he pays his debt in Dublin or Cremona.
Says General de vaudray You have done
a sorniers work!
And every tongue In France shall talk OF
Dillon and OF Burkel
Ask what you will this day,
And be II what II may,
II is granted to the heroes OF Cremona."
why, then" says Dan O'Mahony. zone
favor we entreat.
We were called little early and our
toilets not complete
We've no quarrel with the shirt.
But the brooches wouldn't hurt
For the evening air is chilly in Cremona,
Must we twist inept tongues 10 the
French pronunciation OF Rheims or Is this
one OF the French names which has been
Angiclzed7 L. =.
This has a long record as an Anglicized
word. The unimpeachable evidence OF
rhyme Is contributed by tho 1ngoldsby
legend OF sudden temptation OF yielding
| TO sin and the stricken jackdaw soul.
The Jacltdaw sat on the Cardinals chair
Bishop and abbot and prior were there
Many a monk and many a frlar.
Many n knight, and many a squire,
In sooth a goodly company;
And they served the Lord Primats on
Bonded knee.
Never. l ween.
Was a prouder seen.
Road OF in books, or dreamt Of In
dreams
Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop OF
Rheims.
Can you give me the relative age OF
the three spellings Margery. Marjory and
Marjorie and any information as TO the
reasons for this variety
II. G. WAGNER.
Margaret seems to have been too prlu1
for common use and at the same time
TO have aroused such warmth OF affec-
ton as to give rise to a swarm OF tender
dminutives. or course the difference In
the three forms cited is one OF spelling
and not indicative OF chronological
change. They were in existence earlier
! than Shakespeare. for stephano in the
Tempest" interpolates the older song:
The master. the swabber. the boatswair
and ].
The gunner and his mate
Lov'd Mall. Meg and Marian and Mar
gerry.
In this group II Is Interesting IN SEE
that the has lost IFS consonanta
strength and has sortened to the sound
which we represent by consonantal I
this mutation has required I'm very mod.
ern times I'm the vulgar mlsnronu,ciat,or
OF oleomarearine "a oIeomariarIne An
! other group O, Margaret bynames omit,
the and is OF the TYNE Mag Ntoq and
Meg. again with n secondary dlmlnu,iv,
as Maggy. Yet third. quite incompre.
hensible IL this e secondary IN Meg and
nv an anomalous variant Of mo ln,,i,
copsonart hecomes Pa, and ,rous o,.o,
II n secondarv dimlnutIve pegr,. III,
series from Mary az Mol and Poll.
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what became or the kremlin cross II
| Napoleon retreat from MOSCOW
d.
',e NY was prepai ~
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