Chapter Feed of Corn to Fern of F by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

James of Compostella. Leonora entered the same monastery as a novice, obtained the forgiveness of Ferdinando, and died. (Donizetti's opera of La Favorita.)

Ferdosi A Persian poet, famous for the copious flow of his diction. He wrote in verse the Shah-Nâmeh, or history of the Persian kings, which took thirty years, and contains 120,000 verses.

Ferguson It's all very fine, Ferguson; but you don't lodge here. Capt. Ferguson was the companion of the Marquis of Waterford, when that young nobleman made himself notorious for his practical jokes in the middle of the nineteenth century. In one of their sprees the two companions got separated, and the marquis found his way home to the house of his uncle, the Archbishop of Armagh, Charles Street, St. James's Square. The marquis had gone to bed, when a thundering knock came at the door. The marquis, suspecting who it was that knocked, threw up the window and said, "It is all very fine, Ferguson, but you don't lodge here;" and for many years the saying was popular. (See Notes and Queries, Jan. 16, 1886, p. 46.)

Fern (See Fanny Fern .)