P.S. Do the words _modde_, _moddeken,_ quoted by Skinner, exist? and, if
so, are they Dutch or Flemish? I have no means of verifying them at hand.
[On referring to Kilian's _Dictionarium Teutonico-Latin-Gallicum_ (ed.
1642), we find, "MODDE, MODDEKEN, Pupa, Poupée."]
_Cheshire Cat_ (Vol. ii., p. 377.).--A correspondent, T.E.L.P.B.T., asks
the explanations of the phrase, "grinning like a Cheshire cat." Some years
since Cheshire cheeses were sold in this town moulded into the shape of a
cat, bristles being inserted to represent the whiskers. This may possibly
have originated the saying.