20 OCTOBER 1888, Page 15

" JEANNETTE AND JEANNOT."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may interest your correspondent, " Vacuus Viator," to know that the lines he carried away from the "yeast" are from a song called "Jeannette and Jeannot," published at least five-and-thirty years ago. On the outside was a picture of two Breton or Normandy peasants, he a conscript, she in high cap and sabots. It began :— "You are going far away, far away from poor Jeannette."

It was, of course, not in Wessex or any other dialect. —I am,