STY.

--In a dispute which occurred some years ago in Ireland, between Mr. E.
and Mr. M., about the boundaries of a farm, an old tenant of Mr. M.'s
cut a SOD from Mr. M.'s land, and inserted it in a spot prepared for its
reception in Mr. E.'s land; so nicely was it inserted, that no eye could
detect the junction of the grass. The old man, who was to give his
evidence as to the property, stood upon the inserted sod when the
VIEWERS came, and swore that the ground he THEN STOOD UPON belonged to
his landlord, Mr. M.

The Editor had flattered himself that the ingenious contrivance which
Thady records, and the similar subterfuge of this old Irishman, in the
dispute concerning boundaries, were instances of 'CUTENESS unparalleled
in all but Irish story: an English friend, however, has just mortified
the Editor's national vanity by an account of the following custom,
which prevails in part of Shropshire. It is discreditable for women
to appear abroad after the birth of their children till they have been
CHURCHED. To avoid this reproach, and at the same time to enjoy the
pleasure of gadding, whenever a woman goes abroad before she has been
to church, she takes a tile from the roof of her house, and puts it upon
her head: wearing this panoply all the time she pays her visits, her
conscience is perfectly at ease; for she can afterwards safely declare
to the clergyman, that she 'has never been from under her own roof till
she came to be churched.'

GLOSSARY 27. CARTON AND HALF-CARTON,

--Thady means cartron, and half-cartron. According to the old record in
the black book of Dublin, a CANTRED is said to contain 30 VILLATAS
TERRAS, which are also called QUARTERS of land (quarterons, CARTRONS);
every one of which quarters must contain so much ground as will pasture
400 cows, and 17 plough-lands. A knight's fee was composed of 8 hydes,
which amount to 160 acres, and that is generally deemed about a PLOUGH-
LAND.'

The Editor was favoured by a learned friend with the above extract, from
a MS. of Lord Totness's in the Lambeth library.

GLOSSARY 28. WAKE.

--A wake in England means a festival held upon the anniversary of the
saint of the parish. At these wakes, rustic games, rustic conviviality,
and rustic courtship, are pursued with all the ardour and all the
appetite which accompany such pleasures as occur but seldom. In Ireland
a wake is a midnight meeting, held professedly for the indulgence of
holy sorrow, but usuall