Volume 3 - Electric Scotland

I LADDA HUiNA. 387
in their garters. Yet the very name O'Gorgon implies an
jEolian and classical descent, which can scarcely leave a
rational doubt in any sober and judicious mind. Give
me as much law as Vallancey has taken, and I will prove
it.
" And thus castles are built of the heads of fools."
Whether I have thus proved the classical pedigree or
not, St. O'Gorgonmust be the iEolian saint, the patron of
winds; unless St. Nicholas, who is the protector of sai-
lors, should choose to contest that honour with him.
How it happened that the patron and the Davy Jones
should both have had the same name, the councils have
not settled ; unless it be that St. Nicholas is Old Nick and
Nikur himself, and worshipped on the same principle as
he is adored by the Savages, or as the Greeks worshipped
Pluto. As to the rest of the fraternity and sisterhood,
there are excellent reasons for their several commands ;
and if the Catholic Church has discovered those them-
selves, we need not fear to repeat them. If Saint
Veronica is the patroness of milliners and mantua-
makers, not less reason is there why St. Ann should be
the goddess of Joiners, since she sits in a chair. That St,
George ought to patronize the Armourers, is as incontro-
vertible as that St. Sebastian should be the protector of
the Bowyers and Fletchers. The Old Maids claim St.
Undecimilla, for obvious reasons ; and the Cooks St.
Lawrence, for more satisfactory ones still ; but not for
better ones than the Tanners worship St. Bartholomew,
the Hackney-coachmen St. Phiacre, the Nailers St.
Cloud, and the Oilmen St. Polycarp. Why St. Crispin
is good for Shoe-makers, St. Apollonia for the tooth-
ach, St. Anthony for pigs, St. Martin for the itch, St.
Louis for periwigs, St. Valentine for lovers and the falling
sickness, and St. Gallus for geese, I leave you to find out;
and you may call in to your aid La Mothe Le Vayer, and
Barnaby Googe, should it exceed your own ingenuity.
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