"When once a giggling _mawther_ you,
And I a red-faced chubby boy."--_Rural Tales_, 1802, p. 5.

Perhaps it is derived from the German [Fraktur: magd] with the termination
een or -den added, as in the Lincolnshire dialect, hee-der, and shee-der,
denote the male and female sex.

_Gotsch._--A jug or pitcher with one ear or handle. Forby thinks it may be
derived from the Italian _gozzo_, a throat.

_Holl._--From the Saxon holh. German [Fraktur: hohle], a ditch.

_Anan!_ = How! what say you? Perhaps an invitation to come near, in order
to be better heard, from the Saxon nean, near. Vid. Brockett's,--Jennings,
and Wilbraham's Chesh. Glossaries.

_To be Muddled._--That is, confused, perplexed, tired. Doubtless from the
idea of thickness, want of clearness; so, muddy is used for a state of
inebriety.

_Together._--In Low Scotch, thegether, seemingly, but not really, an
adverb, converted to a noun, and used in familiarly addressing a number of
persons collectively. Forby considers _to_ and the article _the_ identical;
as to-day, to-night, in Low Scotch, the day, the night, are in fact, this
day, this night; so {366} that the expression together may mean "the
gathering," the company assembled.

The authorities I have used are Forby's _Vocabulary of East Anglia_; Moor,
_Suffolk Words and Phrases_; and Lemon, _English Etymology_; in which, if
ICENUS will refer, he will find the subject more fully discussed.

E. S. T

_Conflagration of the Earth_ (Vol. ii., p. 89.).--The eventful period when
this globe, or "the fabric of the world,"[1] will be "wrap'd in flames" and
"in ruin hurl'd," is described in language, or at least, in sense similar
to the quotations of our correspondent in p. 89., by the poets,
philosophers, fathers, and divines here referred to:--

Lucan, lib. i. 70. et seqq. 75.:--

"Omnia mistis Sidera sideribus concurrent."

Seneca _ad Marciam_, cap. ult.:--

"Cum tempus advenerit, quo se mundus renovaturus extinguat, viribus
ista se suis cedent, et sidera sideribus incurrent, et omni flagrante
materia uno igne quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit."

_Quaest. Nat._ iii. 27., which contains a commentary on St. Peter's
expression, "Like a thief in the night:"--

"Nihil, inquit, difficile est Naturae, ubi ad finem sui properat. Ad
originem rerum parce utitur viribus, dispensatque se incrementis
fallentibus; subito ad ruinam et toto impetu venit ... Momento fit
ci