Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850

Hockey (Vol. i., p. 457.).—I have not observed that this has been yet noticed: if such be the case, permit me to refer to a letter of the poet Cowper, dated 5th Nov., 1785 (5th vol. Works, edit. by Southey, p. 174.) in which, alluding to that day, he says,

"The boys at Olney have likewise a very entertaining sport which commences annually upon this day; they call it hockey, and it consists in dashing each other with mud, and the windows also, so that I am forced to rise now and then and to threaten them with a horsewhip, to preserve our own."

    F.R.A.

Praed's Poetical Works (Vol. ii., p. 190.).—Your Cambridge correspondent, Mr. Cooper, will be glad to know that Praed's poems are published in a collected form; Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, now first collected by Rufus W. Griswold; New York, 1844. This collection contains some thirty-six pieces. The longest poems, "Lillian" and "The Troubadour," each in two cantos, display passages of great beauty and exquisite musical flow. Among the charades, five in number, "Sir Harry, he charged at Agincourt", is not to be found.

    W.M. Kingsmill.

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