Some similar but trivial query, whose purport I have now forgotten, was addressed by the junior of the Chiefs to Eveena; and I was struck by the patient courtesy with which he waited till, after two or three efforts, she sufficiently recovered her self-possession to understand and her voice to answer.

He sat down to wait, and addressed to his bewildered judgment a query as to whether or not he ought to keep on carrying the burdensome rifle.

Mrs. Potts was aghast in behalf of William Shakspere, and Marcella Eubanks was crimsoning at the blunt query about Byron, well knowing that he could be taken up by a lady only with the wariest caution, and that he would much better be let alone.

How did you find the stuff, Hyman?" The one called Hyman here seemed to despair of putting off this query.

One such fellow came to our mess the other day, and in answer to our query as to the special nature of his flock, he answered that, though strictly speaking a Congregationalist, he had found that he had become a "dealer in out-sizes in souls," as he called it.

What was the query about?

His whole manner was a mute testimony to his participation in the eternal query: How did I get into it?

* Query for Naturalists.

A bit grave, he seemed to me to be looking, and I probed the matter with a kindly query: "Something on your mind, Jeeves?"

If Mr. HAROLD LAKE'S account of the British forces in Macedonia is supposed to supply an answer to a not unnatural query as to what they are doing there, I am afraid one must take it that in fact they are doing nothing in particular.

[Footnote 10: Sometimes called in the romances Frusberta (query, from fourbir, to burnish; or, froisser, to crush?).

This query was a happy afterthought which Sanders craftily suggested in a designedly artless manner.

In response to Leverage's query, he explained: "Shot fired from mighty close," he said.

But French Pete seemed to know instinctively the direction he should go, and once, in reply to a query from Joe, bragged of his ability to go by the "feel" of things.

Query VIn Rees' Cyclopæia, article BOURBON, we are told that in that island there is "a kind of large bat, denominated l'Oiseau bleu, which are skinned and eaten as a great delicacy."

Where did the compiler of the article pick up this statement? Query VI.Is there in existence any figure, published or unpublished, of the Dodo-like bird which once inhabited the Isle of Bourbon? Query VIIWhat is the derivation or meaning of the words

Where did the compiler of the article pick up this statement? Query VI.Is there in existence any figure, published or unpublished, of the Dodo-like bird which once inhabited the Isle of Bourbon? Query VIIWhat is the derivation or meaning of the words

A splendidly bound copy of The Dodo and its Kindred will be given to any one who can answer this query affirmatively.

Query IX.In Holme's Academy of Armory and Blazou, Chester, 1688, p. 289, we find a Dodo figured as an heraldic device, a fac-simile of which is given in the Annals of Natural History, 2nd series, vol.

Before concluding, I will add a query on a very different subject.

to A CORNISHMAN'S Query (No. 13.

p. 202) respecting "Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms," suggests another query.

"GASTROS" has also obligingly replied to my query as to "the meaning of the term Pisan, used in old records for some part of defensive armour," but he seems to have forgotten that I expressly stated that term had no relation to "the fabrics of Pisa;" at least such is my belief.

In answer to "B.'s" query (No. 14.

"W.P.P." has also kindly replied to this query by furnishing a part of the Article on Calamitas in Vossius; and "J.F.M." adds, Calamitas means "The spindling of the corn, which with us is rare, but in hotter countries common: insomuch as the word calamitas was first derived from calamus, when the corn could not get out of the stalk.