J. K. R. W.

[This reference renders it unnecessary to insert the versions kindly

supplied by E. L. H. and J. A.]

_Unregistered Proverbs_ (Vol. ix., p. 235.).--The following I find among

the poor parishioners of Tor-Mohun in Devonshire, and they were new to me.

In answer to some remarks of mine on the necessary infirmities of old age,

one of them replied, "You cannot have two forenoons in the same day." And

on another occasion, in answer to my saying that something _ought_ to be

done, although it was not, there came, "_Oughts_ are nothings unless

they've strokes to them."

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