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YORKSHIRE. If a joke may be pardoned by reason of its antiquity then certainly the time-honoured jest of the "Yorkshireman's Coat-of-Arms" should be here inserted. It has been sometimes drawn, but that is not its point. It is said to consist of "A flea, a fly, and a flitch of bacon," and to these are sometimes added "a magpie."

"A flea, a fly, a magpie an' bacon flitch

Is t'Yorksherman's Coit of Arms;

An' t'reason they've choszen these things so rich

Is becoss they hev all speshal charms.

A flea will bite whoivver it can—

An' soa, my lads, will a Yorksherman!

A fly will sup with Dick, Tom, or Dan,—

An' soa, by gow! will a Yorksherman!

A magpie can talk for a terrible span,—

An' so, an' all, can a Yorksherman !

A fitch is no gooid, whol its hung, y'ell agree,-

No more is a Vorksherman, don't ye see!"

YOUGHAL (Co. Cork). Has no armorial bearings registered in Ulster's Office but the arms, "Sable, an ancient one-masted ship with sail furled," are attributed to the town. Is the ship intended for a yawl " ?

YUKON, See of. (Formerly known as Selkirk, g.v.) Per fesse vert and argent, over all an open book between in fesse pine trees and in base a bear passant proper.

[Of no authority.]

ZADAR. Argent, on a mount in base in front of a high rock, thereon a castle triple-towered, a chevalier all proper mounted on a horse sable, the trappings or, carrying a standard argent, charged with a cross gules.

ZANZIBAR AND EAST AFRICA, See of. Argent, issuing from a mount in base a wooden cross between two roundles, the dexter charged with the letter S, and the sinister charged with the letter C.

[Of no authority.]

ZARA, Duchy of. Argent. a mounted knight in full armour, his lance in pale, all proper.