S. N.

_The Nursrow._--What is the origin of the word _Nursrow_, a name applied by

Plott, in his _History of Staffordshire_, to the shrew mouse, and by the

common people in Cheshire at the present day to the field-mouse; or rather,

perhaps, indiscriminately to field and shrew mice?

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