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Wamba the jester, in ‘Ivanhoe,’ if I may perhaps be excused these a trite illustration, reminds us that our cattle, while in the discipline, and beneath the guardianship of the enslaved Saxon, ended up referred to as by the Saxon conditions of ‘ox,’ ‘sheep,’ and ‘calf,’ but served on the tables of their lords became Norman ‘beef,’ ‘mutton,’ and ‘veal’-that is, though the former fed them, the latter it was that fed on them. Thus in the very same way, if all those homely pursuits which connected to the tilling of the soil, the breeding of cattle, the gathering in and the storing of the harvest-if these maintained the phrases which belonged to them ere the Conquest, they are so many marks of serfdom. Are we once again on the bleak hill-facet. How purely Saxon are all these names! Lastly, we may well point out our early ‘Philip le Lardiners’ and ‘Hugh le Lardiners,’ names that in on their own recommend to us the 1 intent of the herdsman, the fattening of his cost. Who was in cost down there, it preferred to know. It is a model of the out of date pike "hedgehog", creating any cavalry cost a suicidal work out. When, even so, the wild boar had been brought down, and salted, and place aside for wintertime use, how normal that to the housewife it ought to engross this standard feeling.