The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-17
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

| by CnArles kingsley ana 10 entitled
lorraine" As the verses are full OF
tenderness and pathos enclose a copy OF
the poem as II appears in an old scrap
book In case you care to print the verses
for the benefit OF your readers who have
not read them before
W. w. ELLSWORTH
LORRAINE.
Are you ready for your steeplechase,
Lorraine. Lorraine. Lorreer'
Barum. Barum Barum, Barum, Barum.
Barum. Baree!
You're booked to ride your Gaping race
to-day at Coulteriee.
You're booked to ride vindictive, for ali
the world TO see,
To keep him straight and keep him FIRST
and win the run for me-"
Barum. Barum. Barum Barum Barum
Barum, Barrel
She ciasped her newborn baby. poor Lor-
raine. Lorraine. Loree.
Barum. Barum. Barum. Barum. Barum
Barum. Baree!
IT cannot ride vindictive. A. any man
might see.
And I will not ride vindictive with this
baby on my knee:
He's killed a boy. he's killed a man. and
why must he kin me7"
Unless you ride vindictive. Lorraine, Lor.
ralne. Loree,
Unless you ride vindictive to-day at Coul-
terlee,
And land him safe across the brook and
win the blank for me-
IT'S you may keep your baby. for you'll
get no keep from me"
THAT husbands could be cruel" said Lor
raine. Lorraine, Loree.
THAT husbands could be cruel. have
known for seasons three:
But, Oh, 70 ride vindictlve while a baby
cries for me,
And be killed across a fence at last for
all the world to sce!'
She mastered young vindictive--oh! tn,
gallant lass was she.
And kept him straight and won the rae,
as near as near could be;
But he killed her at the brook. against q
pollard willow tree.
on! he killed her at the brook, the brute
for all the world to see,
And no one but the baby cried for poor
Lorraine, Loree
violent argument has arisen con-
corning the use OF quotation marks, as
illustrated In the two letters enclosed
herewith. No. Is as Il was written from
dictation and In guaranteed to be accurate
BY my opponent. No. . Is as believe II
should be written with reference to the
quotation marks. II. p. T.
20. NJ. S." who asks for the divertins
verses concerning the riding OF Vindc.
tive in last Sundays sun" will And
the complete poem In Frank Richard
sons volume entitled "Shavings." pub.
lished some three years ago In London
I am interested to know why 20. NJ s.
calls Il "circus verse" Is the word "clr
GUS in this connection abiding to a form
of verse or is IT because he indstincti..
recalls the last line OF the poem. which
mentions "Bar-num and exc Bailee"?
0
o. NJ. g.. who asked In last Sundays
Sun for the diverting verses concerning
the riding Of Vindictive, will find tn,
complete poem in Frank Richardson.
volume entitled "Shavings." published
interested TO know why o. NJ. 8. call,
Il "circus verse" II the word circus II
this connection abiding to form Of
verse or is II because he indistinctly re-
calls the last line OF the poem. which
mentions "Bar-num and exc Bailee"?
In this by no means uninterestins
problem in neat typography issue OF
Euillemets Is Joined upon these severa
points: the auotabiiity OF o. NJ. s., OF
Sun, OF circus standing alone. 1t seem
TO be agreed that Shavings. as the till,
OF book and Barnum and exc Bailee
as a direct citation from the same, anc
circus verse. as a citation from the orlgi
nal query. are properly quotable. Thu
points in dispute may thus be settled
There Is no reason for throwing quote,
about o. M. 8. as Identifying initials an,
. more than II the name were written GU
in full, optlmus Maximus Senex. The com
mon habit OF typography IL to omi
quotation marks from the names OF peri
odical publications and to employ itaiic
In general and small capitals when ref
erence to a periodical is entered in IT
own pages: but with the passing OF han,
composition the quotes are coming int
such use, and 1t may be noted that
quoted sun" Is preferable to a Sun de
. void Of photosphere and corona. In tn
third point there Is no particular need L
quote circus when used alone, for in tn
Immediately preceding quoted 'clrcu
verse the ascription to author Is mad
perfectly clear.
Incidentally one notes the very circen
sian corruption of the refrain of the poem
The refrain, as Canon Kingsley wrote II
Is intended to be an onomatopeia of tn
gathering hoofs of the flying steed. a lonl
way after "quadrupedante putrem sonlt'
Quatit ungula campum"
What constitutes the wheel lock of
gun? SHERBuRNITE.
The first advance In the portable plec,
for the use OF the individual soldier wa
the matchbox In the first year OF Henri.
VII. This consisted In attaching the port
fire. a match Of cotton and saltpetre. b!
cock under control OF a trigger whereof,
the fire might be brought down to thu
printing The next advance was the whee
lock, invented in Nuremberg in 1917, frs
used at the Siege OF Parma In 1921 anS
introduced to the English army in 1880
II consisted OF a nuted or srooved stee
wheel which protruded into the priminI
pan and was connected with n stronl
spring. The cock. also regulated by
spring. was fitted with piece of irol
pyrites. In order to discharge the gun tn
| lock was wound I'm nv n kew the cock wa