top bleedings; this
[cranesbill] and the tutsan, the two best remedies the fields afford
for outward and inward bleedings, become all over as red as blood at a
certain season."

SELEUCUS.

_Cure of large Neck_.--I send you two remedies in use here for the cure of
a common complaint, called "large neck." Perhaps they may be worthy of a
place in your "Folk Lore."

A common snake, held by its head and tail, is slowly drawn, by some one
standing by, nine times across the front part of the neck of the person
affected, the reptile being allowed, after every third time, to crawl about
for a while. Afterwards the snake is put alive into a bottle, which is
corked tightly and then buried in the ground. The tradition is, that as the
snake decays the swelling vanishes.

The second mode of treatment is just the same as the above, with the
exception of the snake's doom. In this case it is killed, and its skin,
sewn in a piece of silk, is worn round the diseased neck. By degrees the
swelling in this case also disappears.

ROVERT.

Withyam, Sussex.

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DIBDIN'S LIBRARY COMPANION.

A few days since the writer was musing over the treasures of one of the
most amiable of the bibliographical brotherhood, when his eye rested on a
document endorsed with the following mysterious notification: "A Squib for
Dibdin, to be let off on the next Fifth of November." What in the name of
Guido Fawkes have we here! Thinking that the explosion in "NOTES AND
QUERIES" would do no harm, but perhaps some good, a note was kindly
permitted to be taken of it for that publication. It was evidently written
soon after the appearance of the _Library Companion._

"_Sundry Errors discovered in the Library Companion, recently put forth
by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin_, F.R.S., A.S. This work exhibits the most
extraordinary instance of gross negligence that has appeared since the
discovery of the profitable art of book-making. In two notes (pp. 37,
38.), comprised in twelve lines, occur _fifteen_ remarkable blunders,
such as any intelligent bookseller could, without much trouble, have
corrected for the Rev. and learned author.

"Henry's _Exposition of the Old and New Testaments_ first appeared
collectively in 1710[2], five[3] vols. folio; but the recent edition of
1810[4], in six vols. 4to., is the best[5], as the last volume
contains[6] additional matter from the autho