COLLAR OF ESSES

"Christus purpureum gemmati textus in auro Signabat Labarum, Clypeorum insignia Christus Scripserat; ardebat summis crux addita cristis." By the same sort of reasoning—viz. conjecture—that Mr. John Gough Nichols adheres to the opinion that the Collar of SS. takes its name from the word *Seneschallus*, it might be contended that the initial letters of the lines above quoted mystically stand for "Collar, S. S." Enough, however, has already been written on this unmeaning point to show that some of us are "great gowks," or, in other words, stupid guffs, to waste so much pen, ink, and paper on the…