T. J.

[Footnote 4: See Parkhurst.]

[Footnote 5: Dickinson's _Delphi Phoenic._, p. 10.]

[Footnote 6: Stillingfleet's _Orig. Sacræ_, book iii. c. iii. s. 18.]

_Meaning of Peep_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--You have already told us the

meaning of the word _peep_ in the phrase "Wizards that _peep_ and that

mutter;" in confirmation I may add that the noise made by the queen bee in

the hive previous to swarming is in Devonshire called _peeping_.

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