wn worn by this civil functionary.

=Mazeppa= (_Jan_), a hetman of the Cossacks, born of a noble Polish family
in Podolia. He was a page in the court of Jan Casimir, king of Poland,
and while in this capacity intrigued with Theresia, the young wife of a
Podolian count, who discovered the amour, and had the young page lashed
to a wild horse, and turned adrift. The horse rushed in mad fury, and
dropped down dead in the Ukraine, where Mazeppa was released by a
Cossack, who nursed him carefully in his own hut. In time the young page
became a prince of the Ukraine, but fought against Russia in the battle
of Pultowa. Lord Byron (1819) makes Mazeppa tell his tale to Charles
XII. after the battle (1640-1709).

"Muster Richardson" had a fine appreciation of genius, and left the
original "Mazeppa" at Astley's a handsome legacy [1766-1836].--Mark
Lemon.

=M. B. Waistcoat=, a clerical waistcoat. M. B. means "Mark [_of the_]
Beast;" so called because, when these waistcoats were first worn by
Protestant clergymen (about 1830), they were stigmatized as indicating a
popish tendency.

He smiled at the folly which stigmatized an M. B.
waistcoat[TN-9]--Mrs. Oliphant, _Phoebe, Jun._, ii. 1.

=McGrath= (_Miss Jane_), "is a woman. Uv course doorin' the war she wuz
loyal ez she understood loyalty. She believed in her State. She hed two
brothers which went into the Confedrit servis, and she gave 'em both
horses. But wood any sister let her brother go afoot?... Her case is one
wich I shel push the hardest.... Ef Congress does not consider it
favorably it will show that Congress hez no bowels."--D. R. Locke's,
_The Struggles--Social, Financial and Political--of Petroleum_, V.
Nasby.

=Meadows= (_Sir William_), a kind country gentleman, the friend of Jack
Eustace, and father of young Meadows.

_Young Meadows_ left his father's home because the old gentleman wanted
him to marry Rosetta, whom he had never seen. He called himself Thomas,
and entered the service of Justice Woodcock as gardener. Here he fell in
love with the supposed chamber-maid, who proved to be Rosetta, and their
marriage fulfilled the desire of all the parties interested.--I.
Bickerstaff, _Love in a Village_.

Charles Dignum made his _d['e]but_ at Drury Lane, in 1784, in the
character of "Young Meadows." His voice was so clear and
full-toned, and his manner of singing so judicious, that he was
received with the warmest