Pope's Old Man's Wish (dating back so far as 1685), beginning, "If I live to grow old, for I find I go down," &c. Two parodies are on it, as The Old Woman's Wish. One commences thus, "When my hairs they grow hoary, and my cheeks they look pale," which I have not found earlier than 1694; the other begins, "If I live to be old, The which I never will own," of the same early date. Young Man's Wish seems to have been nearly eighty years later in date. As it is of a cheerful philosophy it deserves to be remembered. J. W. E. Molash, Kent. Notices to Correspondents. GRETCHEN. Various reasons are assigned to account for the Nine of Diamonds being called the Curse of Scotland. 1st. Mary of Lorraine introduced the game of Comète into Scotland, at which the Nine of Diamonds is the winning card, and ruined many Scottish courtiers thereby. 2nd. Because George Campbell, in the reign of Mary Stuart, stole nine diamonds out of the Scottish crown. 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