One-Minute Quiz

1. You have all heard the old song which goes: Up and down the City Road, In and out the Eagle.

That’s the way the money goes, Pop goes the weasel.

L)o you know what a “weasel” was? 2. What is the difference between Palaeography and Palaeontology?

(Answers on Page 89)

1-—This old song, written about the end of the 18th century, is about the tailors of London. There are two schools of thought about the “weasel” referred to: One school (the larger) believes it was the small ironing-board each tailor held on his knees to press the seams that he sewed. (His iron was heated on a charcoal brazier at his side). The other school, that it was a long, thin pressing

iron, one of the more easily spared of his irons. At all events, w r hen short of a few pence, the weasel, be it board or iron, was “popped” at the nearest pawn shop. —Palaeography is the science that deals with ancient handwriting in the period covered from when writing first appears in history down to when printing was first invented, about 1450 AD.

Palaeontology is the science or study of fossil organic remains, whether of animal or plant life. fl Mr. Jock Lee, who bought Madehas Island in Buka Passage 12 months ago, has settled in well and now has the whole place cleaned up.

He plans to plant cocoa amongst his coconut palms.