C. W. GOODWIN.

_Meaning of Pilcher_ (Vol. iii., p. 476.).--Is not our excellent

correspondent MR. SINGER mistaken in supposing that the ears are the

ears of the scabbard or pitcher? If you draw one thing out of another by

the ears, it must be by the ears of the first, not of the second; yet he

also says that it is used for hilts.