Note 99 — “ABRAHAM”—“ABRON”—“AUBURN.”

In Thackeray’s Catherine, already quoted, a character appears with “a little shabby beaver cocked over a large tow-periwig.” Still further on he tells us that one of his principal personages “mounted a large chestnut-colored orange-scented pyramid of horse-hair.” Indeed, we have reason to believe that the judges and the bar in England still wear wigs manufactured out of the latter article.