CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

_Teeth Superstition_ (Vol. viii., p 382.).--My wife, who is a Yorkshire

woman, tells me that, whenever she lost a tooth as a child, her nurse used

to exhort her to keep her tongue away from the cavity, and then she would

have a golden tooth. She speaks of it as a superstition with which she has

always been familiar.