Minor Queries Answered.
_Abraham-Men._--Although I cannot find it in your former volumes, nor in
your Index, I think there was an inquiry in one of your past Numbers as
to the meaning of the phrase "_To sham Abraham_."
If there has been any reply, will you be good enough to refer me to it?
as it may explain the passage in Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_, that
"every village almost will yield dummerers _Abraham-men_," &c. (Part I.
sec. 2., vol. i. p. 360.)