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CLOCKMAKERS : CAMPIGNE (12 S. i. 47).
Jn Britten's 'Old Clocks and Watches and
their Makers,' third edition, 1911, this
maker's name appears as Compigne. The
^entry (p. 640) is :
" Compign, , bracket clock, about 1710, in- scribed ' Compigne, Winton ' ; watch, ' Dav. Compigne, Winton,' about 1750 ; good long-case -clocks by him are to be met with in Hampshire."
G. L. APPEBSON.
MEMORY AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH ^(12 S. i. 49). One summer afternoon in 1882 two young and foolish boys jumped into Harrow " Ducker " for the first time without studying the record of the various " depths " 'indicated upon the edge of the bath. Neither could swim ; and, as the water just came over the tops of their heads, they were soon in a bad way. T. was hauled out by O. B., an older and more expert Harrovian, and fortunately had sufficient breath and pre- sence of mind left to say that your present correspondent was equally inefficient. So I also was rescued from a watery grave. I remember thinking that it was all up with me, and that, like Falstaff, I had swallowed
- an intolerable amount of water ; but cer-
tainly the events of my past life did not kinematographically pass before me. How- ever, we were none the worse ; and one ^afternoon two years later, w r hen aged 16. I succeeded in swimming twelve lengths of the "bath. " Ducker " is 500 feet in length.
A. R. BAYLEY.
During the second Afghan War (1878-80) T was at Quetta, where my duties brought me into intimate relations with a general who, as a youth, had served in the first Afghan War (1838-40). One day he related to me the following experience : His regi- ment was engaged in the first wa.r, and he (a subaltern then) was severely wounded in the chest and left, as he thought, dying on the field. Whilst so lying on the ground he said that he saw all his sinful actions pass in review through his mind, and feeling horrified he prayed earnestly to be allowed to recover and try to amend his way of life. He was picked up, taken to hospital, and recovered. Afterwards he lived a strictly religious life.
W. H, CHIPPINDALL, Col. Kirkby Lonsdale.
THE BURY, CHESHAM, BUCKS (12 S. i. 48). Rock & Co. were the publishers of the views described. These were probably issued between 1840 and 1860 as steel engravings printed on enamelled cards ; the same illustrations of places of local interest
were offered as note-paper headings, and in a
guide-book if such a work was issued. Ihis
was one of the earliest forms of the local
view souvenir represented to - day by the
picture post-card. Rock & Co., with com-
mendable enterprise, included even the
London suburbs in their series. For many
years they carried on business in Walbrook-;
and Rock Bros., Ltd., of 60 Paul Street,
E.G., are their descendants.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
I think it will be found that the prints with " Rock & Co.'s " imprint were quite modern reproductions of older prints of 1770. In the fifties and sixties small-sized steel engravings were issued in large variety, depicting seaside and other British resorts, and " Reck & Co., London," was familiar as a leading firm in that trade. I have a specimen of theirs dated " 1855. No. 2762." The prints were approximately the size of the present oblong post-card, and were issued as (1) cards, (2) headings for note- paper, and (3) bound as a series, and lettered " Album," with a local application. Other firms competing were Harwood, Fenchurch Street ; Newman & Co., Wat ling Street ; and C. & E. Lay ton, Fleet Street ; their pro- ductions extending from the early forties down to about 1880, when they succumbed to photography and process - work. As taking a place in the succession of etching, aquatint, and lithography as modes of popular illustration, the " steel " period of Rock & Co. and their competitors is not without artistic interest. W. B. H.
" FAT, FAIR, AND FORTY " (12 S. i. 10, 53). -' The Magic Lay of the One Horse Chay ' is a poem of twenty-four four-lined verses. The first two are :
Mr. Bubb was a Whig orator, also a Soap
Laborator, For everything's new christened in the present
day ; He was followed and adored by the Common
Council Board, And lived quite genteel with a One Horse Chay.
Mrs. Bubb was gay and free, fair, fat, and forty- three, &c.,
as at the latter reference.
H. A. ST. J. M.
SlR WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK must gO
further back for traces of this saying. It will be found on one of Rowlandson's
aricatures, wherein the Prince Regent and Lady Conyngham are lampooned. It may be far older. L. G. R.
Bournemouth.
