Exeter.
_On Æsop's (?) Fable of washing the Blackamoor._--Is it possible the
well-known fable was a real occurrence? The following extract would seem
to allude to an analogous fact:
"Counting the labour as endlesse as the maids in the Strand,
which endeavoured by washing the Black-a-more to make him
white."--_Case of Sir Ignoramus of Cambridge_, 1648, p. 23.