A. A. D.

I beg to contribute the inclosed, which I have heard from a former

incumbent of the parish of Sutton Long in Somersetshire.

"Sutton Long, Sutton Long, at every door a tump of dung.

Some two; some three; it's the dirtiest place that ever you see."

It was an ancient saying in the parish, and I believe the word _tump_ is

Somersetshire for heap.

A village in Essex, called Ugley, possesses the unfortunate saying:

"Ugly church, ugly steeple;

Ugly parson, ugly people."

The first line is literally true; to give an opinion on the second would

descend too much into personalities.

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