21 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 32

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT0R:9 SIR, --t-I can support what

is said by your correspondent Mr. H. A. Russell (Spectator, November 14th) and add a little to it. In a large school that I attended fifty years ago when a: boy threw a stone and widely missed the mark he was said to "boss." Alternatively he was called 'boss-eyed." But this was satire and accommodation of meaning. The true boss-

eyed boy, with actual obliquity of vision, was he who had prominent eye-balls, showing large and rounded. In playing marbles the large marble, twice the diameter of the smaller ones, was also called a "boss." The reference may probably be to the boss or navel, the rounded knob in the centre of a