JACK AND JILL, the first words of an old nursery rhyme, of considerable folk-lore interest. Jill is a corruption of the French Julienne, once common in England under the form Gillian. It also appears in the legend of Saint Kilian, where Geilana vindictively causes the good bishop's death. This incident of Jack and Jill is probably based on one of the moon myths of Scandinavia. The Norse peasant sees in the spots on the moon the two children rescued by the moon from their father, who had forced them to draw water all the day.
or INDIAN TURNIP, a perennial herb (Ariscema triphyl !um) of the arum family (see Aracetr), so called from its spadix, which is upright, with the spathe surrounding and arching over it, suggesting a preacher in an old-fashioned pulpit with a sounding-board. It is common in the United States, east of the great plains, in damp, shady woods and is easily grown in moist garden soil. The spathe falls away in early summer. By late summer the berries which form a dense ovoid head become a brilliant, waxy scarlet. Its acrid tuber or corm is valued for its medicinal properties.
a gunner's term for a shore bird, also called grass or meadow snipe, which is in reality a sandpiper, named in books the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculate). The per version of names is due to its somewhat game like habits of lying to a dog and flushing cor rectly from the grass, like a true snipe which render it an attractive object of pursuit; beside which, in the fall it becomes very fat, and it is then excellent eating. Unlike most sandpipers, it does not flock, at least to any extent, being oftenest found scattered singly or in pairs. In the United States it is chiefly, if not wholly, a bird of passage, breeding in Canada and winter ing in the tropics. It is nine inches long, clay colored, striped with blackish above; breast ashy and sharply streaked; belly white. Con sult authorities mentioned under shore birds.
The English is a true snipe (Gallinago gallinula) of very small size, and therefore also known as °half-snipe°