Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853. Various

weight of paper; with a double supplement, 168 reams.

3

During the week of the Duke's funeral, there were issued by the Stamp Office to the newspaper press more than 2,000,000 of stamps.

4

Bush, not brush, as misprinted in Knight's edition.

5

Foul. Surely this ought to be full. A foul bumbard might be empty. "Foulness" and "shedding his liquor" are not necessarily contingent; but fulness and overflowing are. A full vessel, shaken, cannot choose "but shed his liquor."