instruments, we have a hunting-horn or huntsman's horn, which he blew in the chase; a horn of beer could be obtained (or asked for) when I was a small boy; the larger portion of a horn with a wooden bottom let in was the drinking-cup of our ancestors. The word bull is not found in Anglo-Saxon, but its derivative or diminutive is bulluca, a bull-och. I am unable to trace the suffix uca or its later form och, which has certainly no connection with German ochs, an ox. Possibly the same terminal diminutive is shown in Latin bu-cula, a heifer, from bos, an ox, bull, or cow. A kindred word to bucula seemingly by inference is found in the Latin buccina, a trumpet or crooked horn: note German bugle, curve, anything bent, bugle-riemen stirrup-leather; tuba being the name of the straight trumpet. This word is also written bu-cina, which would seem the correct form though seldom used. The confusion is owing to close similarity to buccula, the diminutive of bucca, a cheek or mouth, and bucco, one who has the cheeks distended. Here may even be a connection, for a person occupied in blowing a horn has the cheeks puffed out. In Italian buccina is a trumpet; buccin-are is to proclaim with sound of the trumpet; and buciacchio is a bullock. In French bou-villon is a bullock. The proof of the argument is in Latin bucerus, having horns like an ox; Greek, bou-keros, having bulls' horns (from bous, a bull, and keras, a horn). But to return to the consideration of Latin bestia, a beast, or wild beast. Through the French besti-aux, cattle, we probably have adopted the use of the term beast and beasts in reference to our domestic oxen—that is, to our horned cattle; for in our form of speech we make no provision in the generic term for the polled races of oxen, such as the Angus and Galloway breeds, originating in Scotland. As an illustration I will give a clipping from a newspaper report of the annual fair at Ipswich in May, 1891, curiously called “St. George's Fair,”: “Fat beasts not quite so numerous, but buyers attending in strong force: a decided improvement in values was noticed. Fat sheep and lambs in request, and recent prices maintained. Numbers at market: Beasts, 1,359; sheep, 2,815; swine, 759. Messrs. Day and Sons, of Crewe, advertise ‘zomo-sal,’ a saline blood tonic for horses and beasts.” And also the following from the “Live Stock Journal” of the 28th June, 1901, under the heading “Scraps”: “Plough cattle were not expensive in 1310. At Cardiff two beasts bought for a cart cost only 18s.; twenty-three plough-oxen cost 13s. 4d. per head; while a bull and fourteen cows bought to stock a manor cost 10s. per head.” And this from an English newspaper: “Spalding, Tuesday.—A small show of fat beasts and a slow trade, 7s.