[The alphabet was so designated, because in the old primers a cross was
prefixed to it. Nares tells us that in French it was called _Croix de
par Dieu_; and upon reference to Cotgrave for an expression of that
term we find, "The Christ's-cross-row; or the hornbook wherein a child
learns it."]
_Apple-pie Order._--_Spick and Span new._--My wife very much grudges my
spending threepence a week for the "NOTES AND QUERIES", and threatens me
with stopping the allowance unless I obtain from some of your
correspondents answers to the two following Queries:--