_Easter Eggs_ (No. 16. p. 244.).--Breakfasting on Easter Monday, some
years ago, at the George Inn at Ilminster, in the county of Somerset, in
the palmy days of the Quicksilver Mail, when the table continued to be
spread for coach travellers at that time from four in the morning till
ten at night, we were presented with eggs stained in the boiling with a
variety of colours: a practice which Brande records as being in use in
his time in the North of England, and among the modern Greeks.