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 Rh When the following took place the grazing ground was common, and the tenants that lived adjoining it had each the privilege of pasturing a certain number of sheep on it. Each one that sent sheep to this common had to offer in sacrifice to the Spirit of the loch the first lamb of his flock dropped on the common. The omission of this sacrifice brought disaster, for, unless the sacrifice was made, half of his flock would be drowned before the end of the grazing season.

An attempt was at one time made to draw the water from the loch, and so dry it, that the burden of the yearly-sacrifice might be got quit of. A number of men met and began to cut an outlet for the water. They wrought all day without hindrance, and, when night came, they retired. On returning next morning they found that their work of the day before had been all undone during night. Again they busily applied their tools, and did a good day's work. This day's work was again undone during night. The third day was again spent in hard toil, but it was resolved to watch during the night how it was that the work carried out during each day was undone at night. A watch was accordingly set. At the hour of midnight there rose from the loch hundreds of small black creatures, each carrying a spade. They immediately fell to work on what the men had done during the day, and, in the course of a few minutes, filled up the trench that they had dug three times before. The grazing common is now a deer-forest, and so the Lambs' Loch no longer needs the sacrifice of lambs.

This is a loch in Nairnshire. It was the common belief that a bull lived in it. He was often heard roaring very loudly, particulariy during frost. (Told by Mrs. Miller.)

At one time there lived near the Linn of Dee, in Mar Forest, a man named Farquharson-na-cat, i.e., Farquharson of the wand. He got this name from the fact that his


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Works

 * "On the Aborigines of Australia" Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London Vol. 3, (1865), pp. 215-298

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72 trade was that of making baskets, sculls, etc. One night he had to cross the river just a little above the linn. In doing so he lost his footing, was carried into the gorge of the linn, and drowned in sight of his wife. Search was made at once for the body, but in vain. Next day the pool below the linn, as well as the river further down, was searched, but the body was not found. That evening the widow took her late husband's plaid and went to the pool below the linn, "atween the sun and the sky". She folded the plaid in a particular way, knelt down on the bank of the pool, and prayed to the Spirit of the pool to give up the body of her drowned husband. She then threw the plaid into the pool, uttering the words, "Take that and give me back my dead." Next morning the dead body, wrapped in the plaid, was found lying on the bank of the pool. Tradition has it that the widow soon afterwards bore a son, and that that son was the progenitor of the Farquharson Clan.

The river Spey is spoken of as "she", and bears the character of being "bloodthirsty". The common belief is that "she" must have at least one victim yearly.

The rhyme about the rivers Dee and Don and their victims is:

The Roumanians believe that in the vicinity of deep pools of water, more especially whirlpools, there resides the baleur or wodna muz—the cruel waterman who lies in wait for human victims. (The Land beyond the Forest, by E. Gerard, vol. ii, p. 9.)

Mr. A. Oldfield, in his account of The Aborigines of Australia, says that the natives believe that every deep muddy pool is inhabited by a Spirit called In-gnas, whose


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VI.] have been: it was doubtless more than a thousand years, at least, before Christ—but the bulk of the work is considerably later. Accompanying the Avesta is a version of it, made for the use of the priests, in another and much more modern Iranian dialect, the Pehlevi or Huzvaresh, supposed to have been the literary language of the westernmost provinces of Iran at a period some centuries later than the Christian era, and much mixed with materials derived from the Semitic tongues lying next westward, across the border. A few inscriptions and legends of coins, of the early Sassanian monarchs (after A.D. 226), furnish further specimens of the same or a nearly kindred dialect.

The general body of religious literature belonging to the Parsis of India contains tolerably copious documents of a somewhat younger and much purer Iranian dialect, usually styled the Parsi (sometimes also the Pazend). It comes, without much question, from a more eastern locality than the Pehlevi, and from a time nearly approaching that of the Mohammedan conquest. Finally, after the conquest, and when Persia was thoroughly made over into a province of the Moslem empire, arises, in the tenth century, the modern Persian, and becomes during several centuries, and even to our own day, the vehicle of an abundant and admirable literature, rich in every department, in poetry, fiction, history, philosophy, science. Its first great work, and almost or quite the greatest it has to offer us, is the Shah-Nameh, 'Book of Kings,' of Firdusi (ob. 1020), a true national epic, grand in extent, noble in style, varied in contents, in which is summed up and related at length the history of the land, traditional, legendary, and mythological, as it lay in the minds of the generation by whom was revived the ancient independence and glory of the Persian nationality. For the impoverishment of its grammar by the loss of ancient forms, the modern Persian is almost comparable with the English. It is more nearly related to the language of the Achæmenidan inscriptions than to that of the Avesta, although not the lineal descendant and representative of either. In its later literary use, it is greatly disfigured by the unlimited introduction of words from the Arabic vocabulary.


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(these first three novels are all under the name "E.D. Gerard" - a collaborative pen name of Emily and her sister Dorothea Gerard)
 * Reata; or What's in a Name, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880.
 * Beggar My Neighbour, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882.
 * The Waters of Hercules, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885.
 * "Transylvanian Superstitions." The Nineteenth Century Vol.18, (1885) p. 128-144
 * The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888.
 * Bis, 1890
 * A Secret Mission, 1891
 * A Sensitive Plant, 1891. (as "E.D. Gerard" in collaboration with Dorothea Gerard.)
 * The Voice of a Flower 1893
 * A Foreigner, 1896.
 * An Electric Shock, 1897.
 * Tragedy of a Nose, 1898.
 * The Extermination of Love: A Fragmentary Study in Erotics, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901.
 * The Heron's Tower, 1904.
 * Honour's Glassy Bubble, A Story of Three Generations, 1906. (Posthumously published.)

Aside from the collaborations, she was most commonly identified as "E. Gerard" on the title pages of these works.

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224 There are several other language, in regions bordering on or included within the Iranian territory, which stand in such relations with those we have been describing as to be ranked in the same class, although their Iranian attributes are greatly obscured by the changes which have passed upon them since their separation from the principal stock. By far the most important of these is the Armenian, with an abundant literature going back to the fifth century, the era of the Christianization of the Armenian people. Others are the Ossetic, in the Caucasus; the Kurdish, the dialect of the wild mountaineers of the border lands between Persia, Turkey, and Russia; and the Afghan or Pushto, which in very recent times has enjoyed a certain degree of literary cultivation.

We come, finally, to that member of our family which has lived its life within the borders of India. Not all the numerous dialects which fill this immense peninsula, between the impassable wall of the Himalayas and the Indian ocean, own kindred with the Indo-European tongues, but only those of its northern portion, of Hindustan proper, ranging from the Indus to the mouths of the Ganges, together with a certain extent of the sea-coast and its neighbourhood stretching southward on either side. The central mountainous region and the table-lands of the Dekhan yet belong to the aboriginal tribes, who in the north were crowded out or subjugated, at a period lying only just beyond the ken of recorded history, by the Indo-European races, as they intruded themselves through the avenue, the passes on the north-western frontier, by which the conquerors of India have in all ages found entrance. The principal modern dialects of our kindred are the Hindi, Bengali, and Mahratta, each with various subdivisions, and each with a literature of its own, running back only a few centuries. The Hindustani, or Urdu, is a form of the Hindi which grew up in the camps (ûrdû) of the Mohammedan conquerors of India, since the eleventh century, as medium of communication between them and the subject population of central Hindustan, more corrupted in form, and filled with Persian and Arabic words—being thus, as it were, the English of India: it has enjoyed more literary cultivation than any other of the recent dialects,


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 Rh powers for mischief seem particularly active during night. Some such pools they will not enter for any consideration, even in broad daylight. (Transactions of the Ethnological Society, vol. iii, pp. 238, 239. New Series.) See Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie (3rd edition), vol. i, pp. 549-567.


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VI.] and is the lingua franca, the official language and means of general intercourse, throughout nearly the whole peninsula. The tongue of the roving Gypsies all over Europe, though everywhere strongly tinged with the local idiom of the region of their wanderings, is in its main structure and material a modern Hindu patois: the Gypsies are exiles from India.

Next older than the languages we have mentioned are the Prakrit and the Pali, represented by a literature and inscriptions which come to us in part from before the Christian era. The Pali is the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in the countries lying eastward and south-eastward from India. The Prakrit dialects are chiefly preserved in the Sanskrit dramas, where the unlearned characters, the women, servants, and the like, talk Prakrit—just as, in a modern German theatre, one may hear the lower personages talk the dialects of their own districts, while the higher employ the literary German, the common speech of the educated throughout the country.

The virtual mother of all these dialects is the Sanskrit. For the last twenty-five centuries, at least, the Sanskrit has been no longer a proper vernacular language, but kept artificially in life, as the sacred dialect of Brahmanism and the cultivated tongue of literature and learning; thus occupying a position closely analogous with that held by the Latin since the decline of the western empire, as the language of Roman Catholicism, and the means of communication among the learned of all Europe. It is still taught in the schools of the Brahmanic priesthood, used in the ceremonies of their religion, and spoken and written by their foremost scholars—although, like the Latin in more recent times, much shaken in its sway by the uprise of the modern cultivated dialects, and the decadence of the religion with whose uses it is identified. We possess it in two somewhat varying forms, the classical Sanskrit, and the older idiom of the so-called Vedas, the Bible of the Hindu faith. The former is more altered, by elaborate and long-continued literary and grammatical training, from the condition of a true vernacular, than is almost any other known literary language. Partly for this reason, and partly because, at the time of its


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DPR Korea Industrial Design Act

조선민주주의인민공화국 공업도안법

 * As amended by Act N°1235 by the Presidium of the Supreme Assembly, 2 Aug. Juche 94 (2005).

=Chapter 1. Fundamentals of the Industrial Design Act= The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereinafter referred to as the DPRK) Industrial Designs Act shall establish a strict system and order in the application and examination of the registration of industrial designs and the protection of the industrial design rights, thereby contributing to the improvement of the quality of manufactured goods and the development of socialist economy.
 * Article 1 (Industrial Design Act's aims)

An industrial design is a drawing or a photograph of the shape, colour and decorations of the goods to be manufactured. Industrial design includes designs and decorations of machines and equipment, transport means, textiles, living utensils and goods for cultural use, garments, furniture, furnishings and packing containers.
 * Article 2 (Categories of industrial designs)

Application for the registration of an industrial design is the first process of the industrial design administration. The state shall establish proper application procedures for industrial design registration and ensure their accurate observance.
 * Article 3 (Principles of the Application for the registration of an industrial designs)

It is the basic duty of the industrial design registration organ to responsibly examine the application for the registration of industrial designs. The state shall establish the examination system for the registration of industrial designs and ensure scientific accurancy and impartiality in the examinations.
 * Article 4 (Principles of the Examination procedure for the registration of industrial designs)

To protect the industrial design rights is a consistent policy of the DPRK. The state shall protect the industrial design rights held by institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens.
 * Article 5 (Priciples of the Protection of industrial designs)

The state shall pay close attention to industrial designing to see that it is constantly improved in keeping with the development of the national economy and the increased production of manufactured goods.
 * Article 6 (Principles of industrial designs' innovations)

The state shall develop exchanges and cooperation with international organizations and foreign countries in the field of industrial designing.
 * Article 7 (exchanges and cooperation in the field of industrial designing)

=Chapter 2. Application for registration of industrial designs= Proper application for the registration of industrial designs is a precondition for timely examination of the registration of industrial designs. Institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens shall accurately apply for the registration of the industrial designs that have been created.
 * Article 8 (Fundamental requirements regarding the application of industrial designs)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that wish to apply for the registration of an industrial design shall submit an application to the industrial design registration organ. In case of a joint application, the application shall be presented under the joint names.
 * Article 9 (Submission of official documents for the application of an industrial design)

Each industrial design shall need a separate application for the registration. However, the designs of the items similar to each other in structure and operation may be applied in one document. The application shall contain the title of the design, its classification and the name of the applicant, accompanied by the design, introduction and evaluation report.
 * Article 10 (Filing method of official documents for the application of an industrial design)

The application for registration of an industrial design shall be sent directly or by post to the industrial design registration organ. In an unavoidable circumstance, the application may be sent by such telecommunication means as telex or fax.
 * Article 11 (Submission method of official documents for the application of an industrial design)

Foreign institutions, enterprises, organization and citizens shall present an application in Korean to the industrial design registration organ through an agency if they wish to have their industrial designs registered in the DPRK.
 * Article 12 (Submission of Foreigner applicants for the application of an industrial design)

If any mistake is found in the application for registration of an industrial design, the industrial design registration organ shall send it back or have it corrected within 3 months. In case the mistake is not corrected within 3 months for an unavoidable reason, the period of correction may be extended for up to 2 months.
 * Article 13 (Failure in the application of an industrial design)

Upon acceptance of the application for registration of an industrial design, the industrial design registration organ shall inform the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens of the receipt.
 * Article 14 (Notification of the reception for the application of an industrial design)

The date of application for the registration of an industrial design shall be the date of the receipt of the application. Even when a mistake in the application has been corrected within the appointed time the date of application shall be the date when the industrial design registration organ first receives the application.
 * Article 15 (Industrial design's application date)

In case the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens have presented industrial designs or their specimen products to exhibitions, they shall be granted priority in applying for registration of the same industrial design. In this case a document justifying the priority shall be presented to the industrial design registration organ within 3 months of the said exhibition.
 * Article 16 (Industrial design's priority of application)

The priority of application for industrial design registration given by foreign countries to their institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens shall be valid when a relevant document is presented to the industrial design registration organ of the DPRK within 6 months of its receipt.
 * Article 17 (Validity of foreign applicants priorities of application)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold industrial design rights may have their industrial designs registered in foreign countries. In this case they should obtain approval from the industrial design registration organ before presenting an application for registration of their industrial designs through international organizations or agencies.
 * Article 18 (Application of an industrial design in foreign countries)

=Chapter 3. Deliberation on industrial design for registration= Deliberation on the industrial designs to be registered is an important work to examine the application for the registration of industrial designs and decide on their registration. The industrial design registration organ shall examine the application for industrial design registration within 6 months of its receipt.
 * Article 19 (Duration of the examination process of the industrial designs application)

The industrial design registration organ may demand the applying institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens for information necessary for the deliberation on the industrial designs. The applicants should provide the industrial design registration organ with the required materials in time.
 * Article 20 (Requirements of data for the examination of the industrial designs application)

The following shall not be registered as industrial designs; The industrial design registration organ shall examine the application for industrial design registration and decide on either approval or rejection. The result of examination shall be notified to the relevant institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens.
 * Article 21 (Unregistrable industrial designs)
 * 1) The design basically identical with or similar to the industrial design already registered.
 * 2) The design identical with or similar to the product which has been publicized and used.
 * 3) The design contrary to the laws, public morals, manners and customs of the DPRK.
 * 4) Blueprints of technical equipment or process and designs of fine art work, architecture, monuments and the like.
 * 5) The design identical with or similar to a registered trademark.
 * 6) The design without economic efficiency, artistic applicability or introduction possibility.
 * Article 22 (Examination of industrial designs application)

The industrial designs whose registration have been approved shall be registered in the state register of industrial designs and a certificate of registration shall be issued to the institution, enterprise, organization or citizen concerned. The registered industrial designs shall be announced through the Official Bulletin of Industrial Designs.
 * Article 23 (Decision to Grant industrial designs application)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that have grievances against the registered industrial designs may lodge petition with the industrial design registration organ within 6 months of the announcement. The industrial design registration organ shall examine the petition and inform the relevant institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens of the result.
 * Article 24 (Opposition to the Registration of industrial design application)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that disagree to the rejection of the registration may request for reexamination within 6 months of the notification of rejection.
 * Article 25 (Decision on Opposition to the Registration of industrial design application)

The applicants may, if any, lodge complaint about the decision of the reexamination with the State Industrial Design Examination Committee within 2 months of the notification.
 * Article 26 (Decision of the reexamination)

=Chapter 4. Protection of industrial design rights= Protection of the industrial design rights is a basic demand in strengthening the industrial design administration. The industrial design registration organ shall protect the interests of the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold the industrial design rights.
 * Article 27 (Basic Requirements of Protection of industrial design)

The industrial design right shall be held by the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens whose industrial designs have been registered. The right to the industrial designs registered under joint names shall be held jointly.
 * Article 28 (Owner of industrial design)

The holder of the industrial design rights shall have the right; The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that wish to transfer or be transferred an industrial design right shall submit a relevant application to the industrial design registration organ. The transfer of the rights shall be effective from the date of the registration.
 * Article 29 (Ownership of industrial design rights)
 * 1) To use the registered industrial design.
 * 2) To transfer and permit others to use all or part of the registered industrial design.
 * 3) To withdraw the registration of industrial design.
 * Article 30 (Transfer of industrial design rights)

In case the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold the industrial design rights wish to permit other institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens to use the registered industrial designs, they shall conclude contracts and submit a relevant document to the industrial design registration organ.
 * Article 31 (License of Industrial Design)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens permitted to use an industrial design shall be responsible for the quality of the product based on the industrial design. The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that have permitted the use of their industrial design may control the quality of the product based on the industrial design.
 * Article 32 (Permission to control the quality of product based on the industrial design)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that do not have due qualifications may not be transferred the industrial design right nor be permitted to use the registered industrial design.
 * Article 33 (Transfer of industrial design rights and unallowed Licence of Industrial Design)

In case the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold the industrial design rights wish to transfer their rights to foreign institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens or permit them to use their registered industrial designs, they shall obtain approval of the industrial design registration organ.
 * Article 34 (Transfer of industrial design rights to foreign countries and permission of obtaining a Licence of Industrial Design)

The period of protection of the industrial design rights shall be 5 years from the date of application for registration. Upon application by the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold the industrial design rights the period of protection may be extended twice, each by 5 years. In this case an application for the extension of the period shall be submitted to the registration institution.
 * Article 35 (Duration of protection of industrial design)

The application for the extension of the protection period of the industrial design rights shall be presented 6 months before the expiry of the term. In unavoidable circumstances, the application may be presented within 6 months after the expiry of the term of protection.
 * Article 36 (Extension of the term of industrial design rights)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold the industrial design rights shall submit an application to the industrial design registration organ for any change of the name, address and others within the term of protection. The industrial design registration organ shall register the particulars of change in the State industrial design register.
 * Article 37 (Modifications of industrial design application)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that wish to cancel the registration shall submit a relevant document to the industrial design registration organ. In this case the certificate of registration should also be submitted.
 * Article 38 (Withdrawal of Industrial Design application)

The industrial design rights shall be invalid in case the registered industrial design has been cancelled, the term of its protection expired or the industrial design has not been used for 2 years since its registration.
 * Article 39 (Effect of Abandonment of an Industrial Design Right)

=Chapter 5. Guidance and control of industrial design administration= It is an indispensable requirement for encouraging the creation of industrial designs and protecting the relevant rights to strengthen guidance and control of the industrial design administration. The state shall strengthen guidance and control of the industrial design administration.
 * Article 40 (Fundamental Requirements of the Guidance and control of industrial design administration)

The guidance to industrial design administration shall be exercised by the industrial design guidance organ under the unified guidance of the Cabinet. The industrial design guidance organ shall regularly grasp and guide the industrial design administration work.
 * Article 41 (Duties of guidance to the Industrial Design administration)

The industrial design registration organ shall regularly announce the registration of industrial designs, extension of the term of protection, transfer, permission to use, cancellation, the names of the applicants for registration and the change of address.
 * Article 42 (Publication of industrial Design applicaions and related informations)

The institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens shall pay in time the fees concerning industrial design administration. The fees concerning industrial design administration shall be set by the price fixing organ.
 * Article 43 (industrial Design charge fees)

The relevant institutions, enterprises and organizations shall research for the creation of industrial designs and train necessary personnel in a far-sighted way.
 * Article 44 (Creation of Industrial Design)

No institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens should use registered industrial designs without permission or violate the procedures of transferring industrial design rights or permitting the use of industrial designs.
 * Article 45 (Prohibition of secret methods related to the ownership of Industrial Design)

Supervision and control of industrial designs shall be exercised by the industrial design guidance organ and the relevant supervision and control organs.
 * Article 46 (Supervision and control of industrial designs)

Any infringement on the interests of the institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that hold the industrial design rights shall be compensated or the products produced in violation of the law shall be confiscated.
 * Article 47 (Compensation of violation, Confiscation)

In case a registered industrial design has been used without permission or the procedure of transferring the industrial design right and permitting the use of industrial design has been violated, the use shall be terminated or the registration of the industrial design cancelled.
 * Article 48 (End of use, Cancellation of Application)

Administrative or penal responsibility shall be imposed on the officials of the institutions, enterprises and organizations and citizens who are responsible for any great consequences by violating this law.
 * Article 49 (Administrative and penal responsibility)

Disputes concerning industrial designs shall be settled through consultation. In case of failure in consultation the disputes shall be referred to the industrial design registration organ and state industrial design examination commission for settlement. If no settlement is reached, they may be referred to an arbitration body or a court for settlement.
 * Article 50 (Disputed solved through agreements)

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226 and fixation as the learned tongue of all Aryan India, it must have been one among a number of somewhat differing local varieties of Aryan speech, whose differences form a part of the discordance of the later dialects, I have called it above rather their virtual than their actual progenitor: it represents very closely the primitive stock out of which they have all grown, by varying internal development, and by varying influence and admixture of foreign tongues. When and where it was at first a spoken dialect, is out of our power to determine; but it cannot well be regarded as of less age than the earliest Greek records; and it is probably older by centuries. It possesses a most abundant literature, in nearly every department save history; its religious and ethical poetry, its epics, its lyric flights, its dramas, its systems of philosophy and grammar, have been found worthy of high admiration and of profound study by Western scholars; they have even been ranked by some, though very unjustly, as superior to the masterpieces of the Greek and Latin literatures. To fix the chronology of its separate works is a task of the extremest difficulty; but some of them, even in their present form, and the substance of many others, certainly come from a time considerably anterior to the Christian era.

The Vedic dialect is yet more ancient; the earliest portions of the oldest collection, the Rig-Veda ('Veda of hymns'), must, it is believed, date from nearly or quite two thousand years before Christ. The considerations from which this age is deduced for them are of a general and inexact character, yet tolerably clear in their indications. Thus, for example, the hymns of the Vedas were chiefly composed on the banks of the Indus and its tributaries, when the great valley of the Ganges was as yet unknown to the Aryan immigrants; and they present the elephant as still a wondered-at and little-known animal: while the earliest tidings of India which we have from without show us great kingdoms on the Ganges, and the elephant reduced to the service of man, both in war and in peace. Buddhism, too, which is well known to have preceded by several centuries the birth of Christ, was a revolt against the oppressive domination of the Brahmanic


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VI.] hierarchy; and in the Vedas are to be seen only the germs of Brahmanism, not yet developed: no hierarchy, no system of castes, no vestige of the doctrine of transmigration. The conclusions drawn from a study of the internal history and connection of the different classes of works composing the sacred literature of India—which follow one another, in a close succession of expositions, rules, and comments, from a time not much later than that of the more recent hymns down to the historical period—point also to the same age. The Vedas are thus by not less than a thousand years the earliest documents for the history of Indo-European language—for the history, moreover, of Indo-European conditions and institutions. The civil constitution, the religious rites, the mythologic fancies, the manners and customs, which they depict, have a peculiarly original and primitive aspect, seeming to exhibit a far nearer likeness to what once belonged to the whole Indo-European family than is anywhere else to be attained. The Vedas appear rather like an Indo-European than an Indian record; they are the property rather of the whole family than of a single branch.

Much of the same character appertains to the classical Sanskrit: it is both earlier in chronologic period and more primitive in internal character than any other language of the whole great family. Its peculiar value lies in its special conservation of primitive material and forms, in the transparency of its structure, in its degree of freedom from the corrupting and disguising effects of phonetic change, from obliteration of original meaning and application. We must beware of supposing that at all points, in every item of structure, it is the superior of the other Indo-European tongues, or that it constitutes an infallible norm by which their material is to be judged; on the contrary, each of the other branches here and there excels it, offering some remains of early Indo-European speech which it has lost; but to it must be freely conceded the merit of having retained, out of the common stock, more than any one among them, almost more than they all. Exaggerated and unfounded claims are often put forward in its behalf by those who do not fully understand the true sources of its value: its


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228 alphabet, though rich and very harmoniously developed, does not cover more than about two-thirds of our English system of spoken sounds; as an instrument of the expression of thought it has very serious and conspicuous defects, being inferior—especially in its handling of the verb (the soul of the sentence), in a loose and bald syntactical arrangement, and in an excessive use of compounds—not only to the Greek, but to almost every other cultivated Indo-European tongue; nor (as has been already hinted) can its literature sustain a moment's comparison with those of the classical languages. It is to be prized chiefly as a historical document, casting inestimable light upon the earliest development of the common speech of the Indo-European family, and the relations of its members. Had all its literature besides perished, leaving us only a grammar of its forms and a dictionary of its material, it would still in a great measure retain this character; were but a fragment of one of its texts saved, as has been the case with the Mœso-Gothic, it would still vindicate its right to a place at the head of all the languages of the family. It may easily be appreciated, then, what an impulse to the historical study of language, then just struggling into existence by the comparison of the tongues of Europe, was given by the discovery and investigation of this new dialect, having a structure that so invited and facilitated historic analysis, and even presented by the native grammatical science in an analyzed condition, with roots, themes, and affixes carefully separated, distinctly catalogued, and defined in meaning and office. In all researches into the beginnings of Indo-European speech, the genesis of roots and forms, its assistance is indispensable, and its authority of greatest weight. It often has been and still is wrongly estimated and misapplied by incautious or ill-instructed investigators; it is sometimes treated as if it were the mother of the Indo-European dialects, as the Latin of the modern Romanic tongues, instead of merely their eldest sister, like the Mœso-Gothic among the Germanic languages; it is unduly brought in to aid the inter-comparison of dialects of a single branch, and its peculiar developments, its special laws of euphony or construction, are sought to be forced upon


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VI.] them; the facts it presents are erroneously accepted as ultimate, cutting off further inquiry; portions of its existing material which are of modern growth, or the artificial productions of Hindu scholasticism, are perversely used as of avail for Indo-European etymology: and such abuse has naturally provoked from some scholars a distrust of its genuine claims to regard: but, stripping off all exaggerations, and making all due allowances, the Sanskrit is still the main-stay of Indo-European philology; it gave the science a rapid development which nothing else could have given; it imparted to its conclusions a fulness and certainty which would have been otherwise unattainable.

Such is the constitution of the grand division of human speech to which our own language belongs. That its limits have been everywhere traced with entire exactness cannot, of course, be claimed; other existing dialects may yet make good their claim to be included in it—and it is beyond all reasonable question that, as many of its sub-branches have perished without leaving a record, so various of its branches, fully coördinate with those we have reviewed, must have met a like fate. We may now proceed to glance briefly at some of the grounds of the preëminent importance with which it is invested.

One source of the special interest which we feel in the study of Indo-European language lies in the fact that our own tongue is one of its branches. In the moral and intellectual world, not less than in the physical, everything cannot but appear larger in our eyes according as it is nearer to us. This would be a valid consideration with any race upon earth, since, for each, its own means of communication and instrument of thought is also the record of its past history, and must be its agency of future improvement in culture, and therefore calls for more study in order to its fuller comprehension, and its development and elevation, than should be given to any other tongue, of however superior intrinsic value. But we are further justified in our somewhat exclusive interest by the position which our languages, and the races which speak them, hold among other languages and races. It is true, as was claimed at the outset of these lectures, that linguistic


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 428 fro Smelehethe to derslenthe—to Caldewell, et sic de aliis."

But General Wrottesley, from whom I have these particulars, is not aware of any supposed right of cutting timber in the Deerleap.

My brother informs me, on the authority of Mr. L. C. Cholmely, who formerly resided near Richmond Park, that round the park the Crown claims the land for 16 feet (about 5 yards) outside the fence, and that the adjoining owners recognise the claim, and pay rent for the strip as yearly tenants.

These three instances of boundary privileges, as I may call them, seem to take us back to a very early stage in the history of village settlements, and of private property in land. I shall be glad to hear if anyone else can furnish similar instances, or corroborative details. The name "the Buck's Leap" evidently signifies the width of land a deer could leap over, and may be compared, as a measurement, with such phrases as "a bowshot-length", and "a stone's cast." It must not be confounded with the saltatorium, or chartered deer-leap, such as may still be seen in Wolseley Park, Staffordshire, which was a low part of the fence so constructed that the deer from the forest could leap into the park but not back again.

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 CORRESPONDENCE.

THE BUCK'S LEAP.

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,—Certain farms in the west of Shropshire stand on the site of an old deer-park, and are bounded in part by the old park fence. The ditch is inside the fence, yet the obligation of keeping the fence in repair rests with the owner of the land within it, that is to say, of the former deer-park; not, as usual, with the owner of the land next to which the fence is placed. It is locally believed that the ownership of the deer-park carries with it the right to cut timber for the repair of the fence for a space of five yards from the outside of the boundary, which is called the right of the buck's leap, and has, it is said, been exercised within the memory of man.

Further. Between Wrottesley Park in Staffordshire and the adjacent Manor of Pattingham lies a belt of grassy land, a sort of green lane, leading to nowhere in particular, and called the Deerleap. The park, in which red deer were kept till the reign of Charles II, was emparked by royal licence granted to Sir Hugh de Wrottesley during the siege of Calais by Edward III. But the name of the Deerleap is far older than this, as it occurs twice in a record of the boundaries of Wrottesley in the first year of William Rufus (1088), first as "Deerspring", then as "Deer length", thus: "Hæc terra Wroteslea habet duas hidas. Hiis terminis circumcincta est. Sprynewall in Smeleheth, of Smeleheth in Dersprynge, of dersprynth in Caldewell," etc. "Et notra ubi ista prepositio 'of' dicitur, nichill aliud significatur nisi 'fro',' as, fro' Spryne-wall to


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 Rh THE FLAT-FOOT QUESTION.

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,—Allow me to say, in regard to the concluding remarks of Professor John Rhys in the June number, that some of my words had not been correctly reported—especially those on the Flat-foot Question. On receiving the March number, I at once wrote, as you remember, to express regret at this fact.

I will not take up space by setting right three or four errors of reporting, which do not concern the present subject. What I said on December 9th, before the Society, was this:—

"As to the instep, I can speak from personal experience. Almost every German in this country—that is what I have often heard—finds that an English shoemaker makes his boots not high enough in the instep. It is a usual complaint of Germans in England. I don't know but it may be that some northern Germanic tribe had perhaps slightly flatter feet than Germans in general."

This, it will be seen, is very different from what I was made to say in the report. I did not assert that there was a difference, in this respect, between northern and southern Germans. In using the words, "may be that some northern Germanic tribe had perhaps slightly flatter feet than Germans in general," and guarding even this by, "I don't know," I carefully avoided any such general statement as has been attributed to me.

I had in my mind the idea that possibly some northern Teutonic tribe (either German or Scandinavian), which was mainly a seafaring one, had developed slightly flatter feet, though I would not say for a certainty that such must be the result of that exclusive occupation. Still, that is a point which might be investigated.

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 430 time of the Teutonic and Kimbrian invasion into Gaul and Italy, had no lack of athletic springiness and nimbleness of foot. Their performances were the wonder of the Romans, who were astounded to see Teutoboch, or Teutobod, jump over six horses. The dangerous sword- and spear-dances of the Germans, performed by their youth in a state of nakedness; the extraordinary swiftness of their foot warriors (velocitas peditum), which Tacitus also mentions; and their manifold gymnastic exercises during the Middle Ages—not to speak of our present Turn-Vereine in North and South—forbid the notion of flat-footedness being a Teutonic characteristic at all.

Professor John Rhys, on his part, says:—"Nobody now regards the bulk of the South Germans as of the same race as the tall, light-haired people of North Germany, or the Teutonic element of a somewhat similar type in this country." This sweeping assertion wants a great deal of modification. Compared with the North, the South of Germany shows, no doubt, a greater percentage of men of middle height, with brown hair and dark eyes. The explanation is to be found partly in some remnants of Rhaetian, Keltic, and Roman population, which became blended with their German conquerors; partly in later invasions and wars, which also left their mark.

Yet, take even a country like Bavaria—the largest, next to German Austria, in the southof our Fatherland. There, the statistics drawn up in all the schools, in accordance with Professor Virchow's suggestion, show that in Bavaria there are 66 per cent. of grey or blue eyes, and only 34 of brown ones; 54 per cent. of fair hair, 41 of brown, and only 5 per cent. of black, hair; 85 per cent. of white-skinned and only 15 per cent. of somewhat brownish-skinned, people. In these statistics, I need not say, the Jews are also included, who in Germany are more numerous than in any other European country, Russia excepted.

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 432 the Low-German stem, and speak the Flemish language, which they themselves call Neder-duitsch (Low-German)—a tongue closely kindred to, and well-nigh identical with, Dutch.

Now, is it right, in speaking of the origin of the Belgians of old, simply to pass by the striking and decisive passage in Cæsar? Or did Professor Rhys not know it? The omission seems to me all the more strange as he acknowledges "the truth of the tradition reported by Cæsar, that Belgic tribes had made themselves a home in the south of the island"—that is, of Britain—long before Jutes, Frisians, Angles, and Saxons conquered this country. In Ireland, again, as early as the first part of the second century, Ptolemaios mentions a Belgian and an undoubtedly German tribe in the neighbourhood of Dublin.

I mention this with all due respect to a distinguished Keltic scholar, whose papers on "Manx Folk-lore and Superstitions" I have heard and read with much interest. But being accustomed—I may say without fear of contradiction—to investigate all such matters without undue bias, I avow I cannot understand why, in this case, the things which are Cæsar's were not rendered unto Cæsar.

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 Rh ago, I owed to Professor Virchow's kindness—it is seen that whole northern, but also some parts of southern Bavaria contain an overwhelming proportion of clear-eyed and fair-haired people; some parts up to seventy-five per cent, of grey and blue eyes. Even the Bavarian Palatinate, which lies next to the French frontier, is blue and grey-eyed, in its various districts, to the extent of 59 to 66 per cent.; fair-haired from 53 to 64 per cent.; whiteskinned from 80 to 91 per cent.

In other parts of Southern Germany there are large patches of territory in which the mass of the people are clear-eyed and fair-haired, alternating with patches of different characteristics. Sometimes the plain and the mountain form the line of division; the darker aboriginal natives having been driven on to the hills. This is a subject on which it is difficult to say all that might be desirable in the space of a letter.

I am afraid there is here and there a curious tendency, among some learned men, of crowding out the Teuton in a manner scarcely consistent with careful research. I will not treat here on the Fenian or Fianna Question in Ireland, on which a mass of evidence could be given on the Germanic side, which cannot be lightly dismissed. I was rather startled when finding in Professor Rhys's Celtic Britain a note, headed "Belgae", with this curt sentence:—"Nor is there any reason to suppose that the Belgae were Teutons."

Yet Cæsar, who fought the Belgians; who knew them; who had them interviewed; who heard their own statements through interpreters, declares plainly that "most of the Belgians had sprung from the Germans, having crossed the Rhine in olden times, settled in the country on account of its fertility, and driven out the Gauls" ("Sic reperiebat: plerosque Belgas esse ortos a Germanis, Rhenumque antiquitus transductos, propter loci fertilitatis ibi consedisse; Gallosque, qui ea loca incolerent, expulisse").

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Contents

 * Author’s dedication
 * Chapter I. Dorothy and the Admiral
 * Chapter II. The Ferry to Nowhere
 * Chapter III. The Cruise of the Sideboard
 * Chapter IV. Tree-top Country
 * Chapter V. Bob Scarlet’s Garden
 * Chapter VI. In the Toy-shop
 * Chapter VII. The Song in the Dell
 * Chapter VIII. Something About the Camel
 * Chapter IX. The Camel’s Complaint
 * Chapter X. The Sizing Tower
 * Chapter XI. The Dancing Animals
 * Chapter XII. The Caravan Comes Home

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Chapter I. Dorothy and the Admiral. The Blue Admiral Inn stood on the edge of the shore, with its red brick walls, and its gabled roof, and the old willow-trees that overhung it, all reflected in the quiet water as if the harbor had been a great mirror lying upon its back in the sun. This made it a most attractive place to look at. Then there were crisp little dimity curtains hanging in the windows of the coffee-room and giving great promise of tidiness and comfort within, and this made it a most delightful place to think about. And then there was a certain suggestion of savory cooking in the swirl of the smoke that came out of the tall, old-fashioned chimneys, and this made it a most difficult place to stay away from. In fact, if any ships had chanced to come into the little harbor, I believe everybody on board of them, from the captains down to the cabin-boys, would have scrambled into the boats the moment the anchors were down and pulled away for the Blue Admiral Inn.

The Admiral But, so far as ships were concerned, the harbor was as dead as a door-nail, and poor old Uncle Porticle, who kept the inn, had long ago given up all idea of expecting them, and had fallen into a melancholy habit of standing in the little porch that opened on the village street, gazing first to the right and then to the left, and lastly at the opposite side of the way, as if he had a faint hope that certain seafaring men were about to steal a march upon him from the land-side of the town. And Dorothy, who was a lonely little child, with no one in the world to care for but Uncle Porticle, had also fallen into a habit of sitting on the step of the porch by way of keeping him company; and here they passed many quiet hours together, with the big robin hopping about in his cage, and with the Admiral himself, on his pedestal beside the porch, keeping watch and ward over the fortunes of the inn.

Now the Admiral was only a yard high, and was made of wood into the bargain; but he was a fine figure of a man for all that, being dressed in a very beautiful blue coat (as befitted his name) and canary-colored knee-breeches, and wearing a fore-and-aft hat rakishly perched on the back of his head. On the other hand, he had sundry stray cracks in the calves of his legs, and was badly battered about the nose; but, after all, this only gave him a certain weather-beaten appearance as if he had been around the world any number of times in all sorts of company; and for as long as Dorothy could remember he had been standing on his pedestal beside the porch, enjoying the sunshine and defying the rain, as a gallant officer should, and earnestly gazing at the opposite side of the street through a spy-glass.

The Highlander Sir Walter Rosettes Now, what the Admiral was staring at was a mystery. He might, for instance, have been looking at the wooden Highlander that stood at the door of Mr. Pendle’s instrument-shop, for nothing more magnificent than this particular Highlander could possibly be imagined. His clothes were of every color of the rainbow, and he had silver buckles on his shoes, and brass buttons on his coat, and he was varnished to such an extent that you could hardly look at him without winking. Then his hair and his whiskers were so red, and his legs were so pink and so fat and so lifelike, that it seemed as if you could almost hear him speak; and, what was more, he had been standing for years at the door of the shop, proudly holding up a preposterous wooden watch that gave half-past three as the correct time at all hours of the day and night. In fact, it would have been no great wonder if the Admiral had stared at him to the end of his days.

Then there was Sir Walter Rosettes, a long-bodied little man in a cavalier’s cloak, with a ruff about his neck and enormous rosettes on his shoes, who stood on a pedestal at old Mrs. Peevy’s garden gate, offering an imitation tobacco-plant, free of charge, as it were, to anyone who would take the trouble of carrying it home. This bold device was intended to call attention to the fact that Mrs. Peevy kept a tobacco-shop in the front parlor of her little cottage behind the hollyhock bushes, the announcement being backed up by the spectacle of three pipes arranged in a tripod in the window, and by the words “Smokers’ Emporium” displayed in gold letters on the glass; and, by the way, Dorothy knew perfectly well who this little man was, as somebody had taken the trouble of writing his name with a lead-pencil on his pedestal just below the toes of his shoes.

And lastly there was old Mrs. Peevy herself, who might be seen at any hour of the day, sitting at the door of her cottage, fast asleep in the shade of her big cotton umbrella with the Chinese mandarin for a handle. She wasn’t much to look at, perhaps, but there was no way of getting at the Admiral’s taste in such matters, so he stared through his spy-glass year in and year out, and nobody was any the wiser.

Now from sitting so much in the porch and turning these things over in her mind, Dorothy had come to know the Admiral and the Highlander and Sir Walter Rosettes as well as she could possibly know persons who didn’t know her, and who couldn’t have spoken to her if they had known her; but nothing came of the acquaintance until a certain Christmas eve. Of course, nobody knew better than Dorothy what Christmas eve should be like. The snow should be falling softly, and just enough should come down to cover up the pavements and make the streets look beautifully white and clean, and to edge the trees and the lamp-posts and the railings as if they were trimmed with soft lace; and just enough to tempt children to come out, and not so much as to keep grown people at home—in fact, just enough for Christmas eve, and not a bit more.

Then the streets should be full of people hurrying along and all carrying plenty of parcels; and the windows should be very gay with delightful wreaths of greens, and bunches of holly with plenty of scarlet berries on them, and the greengrocers should have little forests of assorted hemlock-trees on the sidewalks in front of their shops, and everything should be as cheerful and as bustling as possible.

And, if you liked, there might be just a faint smell of cooking floating about in the air, but this was not important by any means, as it might happen at any time.

Well, all these good old-fashioned things came to pass on this particular Christmas eve except the snow; and in place of that there came a soft, warm rain which was all very well in its way, except that, as Dorothy said, “It didn’t belong on Christmas eve.” And just at nightfall she went out into the porch to smell the rain, and to see how Christmas matters generally were getting on in the wet; and she was watching the people hurrying by, and trying to fancy what was in the mysterious-looking parcels they were carrying so carefully under their umbrellas, when she suddenly noticed that the toes of the Admiral’s shoes were turned sideways on his pedestal, and looking up at him she saw that he had tucked his spy-glass under his arm, and was gazing down backward at his legs with an air of great concern.

This was so startling that Dorothy almost jumped out of her shoes, and she was just turning to run back into the house when the Admiral caught sight of her, and called out excitedly, “Cracks in my legs!”—and then stared hard at her as if demanding some sort of an explanation of this extraordinary state of affairs.

Dorothy was dreadfully frightened, but she was a very polite little girl, and would have answered the town pump if it had spoken to her; so she swallowed down a great lump that had come up into her throat, and said, as respectfully as she could, “I’m very sorry, sir. I suppose it must be because they are so very old.”

 The Admiral, making a desperate attempt to get a view of his legs through his spy-glass “Old!” exclaimed the Admiral, making a desperate attempt to get a view of his legs through his spy-glass. “Why, they’re no older than I am”; and, upon thinking it over, this seemed so very true that Dorothy felt quite ashamed of her remark and stood looking at him in a rather foolish way.

“Try again,” said the Admiral, with a patronizing air.

“No,” said Dorothy, gravely shaking her head, “I’m sure I don’t know any other reason; only it seems rather strange, you know, that you’ve never even seen them before.”

“If you mean my legs,” said the Admiral, “of course I’ve seen them before—lots of times. But I’ve never seen ’em behind. That is,” he added by way of explanation, “I’ve never seen ’em behind before.”

“But I mean the cracks,” said Dorothy, with a faint smile. You see she was beginning to feel a little acquainted with the Admiral by this time, and the conversation didn’t seem to be quite so solemn as it had been when he first began talking.

“Then you should say ‘seen ’em before behind,’” said the Admiral. “That’s where they’ve always been, you know.”

Dorothy didn’t know exactly what reply to make to this remark; but she thought she ought to say something by way of helping along the conversation, so she began, “I suppose it’s kind of—” and here she stopped to think of the word she wanted.

“Kind of what?” said the Admiral severely.

“Kind of—cripplesome, isn’t it?” said Dorothy rather confusedly.

“Cripplesome?” exclaimed the Admiral. “Why, that’s no word for it. It’s positively decrepitoodle—” here he paused for a moment and got extremely red in the face, and then finished up with “—loodelarious,” and stared hard at her again, as if inquiring what she thought of that.

“Goodness!” said Dorothy, drawing a long breath, “what a word!”

“Well, it is rather a word,” said the Admiral with a very satisfied air. “You see, it means about everything that can happen to a person’s legs—” but just here his remarks came abruptly to an end, for as he was strutting about on his pedestal, he suddenly slipped off the edge of it and came to the ground flat on his back.

The Admiral sat up and gazed about with a complacent smile Dorothy gave a little scream of dismay; but the Admiral, who didn’t appear to be in the least disturbed by this accident, sat up and gazed about with a complacent smile. Then, getting on his feet, he took a pipe out of his pocket, and lit it with infinite relish; and having turned up his coat-collar by way of keeping the rest of his clothes dry, he started off down the street without another word. The people going by had all disappeared in the most unaccountable manner, and Dorothy could see him quite plainly as he walked along, tacking from one side of the street to the other with a strange rattling noise, and blowing little puffs of smoke into the air like a shabby little steam-tug going to sea in a storm.

Now all this was extremely exciting, and Dorothy, quite forgetting the rain, ran down the street a little way so as to keep the Admiral in sight. “It’s precisely like a doll going traveling all by itself,” she exclaimed as she ran along. “How he rattles! I suppose that’s his little cracked legs—and goodness gracious, how he smokes!” she added, for by this time the Admiral had fired up, so to speak, as if he were bound on a long journey, and was blowing out such clouds of smoke that he presently quite shut himself out from view. The smoke smelt somewhat like burnt feathers, which, of course, was not very agreeable, but the worst of it was that when Dorothy turned to run home again she discovered that she couldn’t see her way back to the porch, and she was feeling about for it with her hands stretched out, when the smoke suddenly cleared away and she found that the inn, and Mr. Pendle’s shop, and Mrs. Peevy’s cottage had all disappeared like a street in a pantomime, and that she was standing quite alone before a strange little stone house.

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Chapter II. The Ferry to Nowhere. The rain had stopped, and the moon was shining through the breaking clouds, and as Dorothy looked up at the little stone house she saw that it had an archway through it with “” in large letters on the wall above it. Of course she had no idea of going by herself over a strange ferry; but she was an extremely curious little girl, as you will presently see, and so she immediately ran through the archway to see what the ferry was like and where it took people, but, to her surprise, instead of coming out at the water side, she came into a strange, old-fashioned-looking street as crooked as it could possibly be, and lined on both sides by tall houses with sharply peaked roofs looming up against the evening sky.

There was no one in sight but a stork. He was a very tall stork with red legs, and wore a sort of paper bag on his head with “” written across the front of it; and as Dorothy appeared he held out one of his claws and said, “Fare, please,” in quite a matter-of-fact way.

“They’re entirely different from mine, anyhow”, said the stork. Dorothy was positively certain that she hadn’t any money, but she put her hand into the pocket of her apron, partly for the sake of appearances, and partly because she was a little afraid of the Stork, and, to her surprise, pulled out a large cake. It was nearly as big as a saucer, and was marked “”; and as this seemed to show that it had some value, she handed it to the ferryman. The Stork turned it over several times rather suspiciously, and then, taking a large bite out of it, remarked, “Very good fare,” and dropped the rest of it into a little hole in the wall; and having done this he stared gravely at Dorothy for a moment, and then said, “What makes your legs bend the wrong way?”

“Why, they don’t!” said Dorothy, looking down at them to see if anything had happened to them.

“They’re entirely different from mine, anyhow,” said the Stork.

“But, you know,” said Dorothy very earnestly, “I couldn’t sit down if they bent the other way.”

“Sitting down is all very well,” said the Stork, with a solemn shake of his head, “but you couldn’t collect fares with ’em, to save your life,” and with this he went into the house and shut the door.

“It seems to me this is a very strange adventure,” said Dorothy to herself. “It appears to be mostly about people’s legs,” and she was gazing down again in a puzzled way at her little black stockings when she heard a cough, and looking up she saw that the Stork had his head out of a small round window in the wall of the house.

“Look here,” he said confidentially, “I forgot to ask what your fare was for.” He said this in a sort of husky whisper, and as Dorothy looked up at him it seemed something like listening to an enormous cuckoo-clock with a bad cold in its works.

It seemed like listening to an enormous cuckoo-clock “I don’t think I know exactly what it was for,” she said, rather confusedly.

“Well, it’s got to be for something, you know, or it won’t be fair,” said the Stork. “I suppose you don’t want to go over the ferry?” he added, cocking his head on one side, and looking down at her, inquiringly.

“Oh, no indeed!” said Dorothy, very earnestly.

“That’s lucky,” said the Stork. “It doesn’t go anywhere that it ever gets to. Perhaps you’d like to hear about it. It’s in poetry, you know.”

“Thank you,” said Dorothy politely. “I’d like it very much.”

“All right,” said the Stork. “The werses is called ‘A Ferry Tale’”; and, giving another cough to clear his voice, he began:

Oh, come and cross over to nowhere, And go where The nobodies live on their nothing a day! A tideful of tricks is this merry Old Ferry, And these are the things that it does by the way:

It pours into parks and disperses The nurses; It goes into gardens and scatters the cats; It leaks into lodgings, disorders The boarders, And washes away with their holiday hats.

It soaks into shops, and inspires The buyers To crawl over counters and climb upon chairs; It trickles on tailors, it spatters On hatters, And makes little milliners scamper up-stairs.

It goes out of town and it rambles Through brambles; It wallows in hollows and dives into dells; It flows into farm-yards and sickens The chickens, And washes the wheelbarrows into the wells.

It turns into taverns and drenches The benches; It jumps into pumps and comes out with a roar; It pounds like a postman at lodges— Then dodges And runs up the lane when they open the door.

It leaks into laundries and wrangles With mangles; It trips over turnips and tumbles down-hill; It rolls like a coach along highways And byways, But never gets anywhere, go as it will!

''Oh, foolish old Ferry! all muddles'' And puddles— Go fribble and dribble along on your way; We drink to your health with molasses In glasses, And waft you farewell with a handful of hay!

“What do you make out of it?” inquired the Stork anxiously.

“I don’t make anything out of it,” said Dorothy, staring at him in great perplexity.

“I didn’t suppose you would,” said the Stork, apparently very much relieved. “I’ve been at it for years and years, and I’ve never made sixpence out of it yet,” with which remark he pulled in his head and disappeared.

“I don’t know what he means, I’m sure,” said Dorothy, after waiting a moment to see if the Stork would come back, “but I wouldn’t go over that ferry for sixty sixpences. It’s altogether too frolicky”; and having made this wise resolution, she was just turning to go back through the archway when the door of the house flew open and a little stream of water ran out upon the pavement. This was immediately followed by another and much larger flow, and the next moment the water came pouring out through the doorway in such a torrent that she had just time to scramble up on the window-ledge before the street was completely flooded.

Dorothy’s first idea was that there was something wrong with the pipes, but as she peeped in curiously through the window she was astonished to see that it was raining hard inside the house—“and dear me!” she exclaimed, “here comes all the furniture!” and, sure enough, the next moment a lot of old-fashioned furniture came floating out of the house and drifted away down the street. There was a corner cupboard full of crockery, and two spinning-wheels, and a spindle-legged table set out with a blue-and-white tea-set and some cups and saucers, and finally a carved sideboard which made two or three clumsy attempts to get through the doorway broadside on, and then took a fresh start, and came through endwise with a great flourish. All of these things made quite a little fleet, and the effect was very imposing; but by this time the water was quite up to the window-ledge, and as the sideboard was a fatherly-looking piece of furniture with plenty of room to move about in, Dorothy stepped aboard of it as it went by, and, sitting down on a little shelf that ran along the back of it, sailed away in the wake of the tea-table. “Dear me!” she exclaimed, “here comes all the furniture!”

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Chapter III. The Cruise of the Sideboard. The sideboard behaved in the most absurd manner, spinning around and around in the water, and banging about among the other furniture as if it had never been at sea before, and finally bringing up against the tea-table with a crash in the stupidest way imaginable, and knocking the tea-set and all the cups and saucers into the water. Dorothy felt very ridiculous as you may suppose, and, to add to her mortification, the Stork ferryman suddenly reappeared, and she could see him running along the roofs of the houses, and now and then stopping to stare down at her from the eaves as she sailed by, as if she were the most extraordinary spectacle he had ever seen, as indeed she probably was. Sometimes he waited until the sideboard had floated some distance past him as if to see how it looked, gazed at from behind; and then Dorothy would catch sight of him again far ahead, peering out from behind a chimney, as if to get a front view of the performance. All this was, of course, very impertinent, and although Dorothy was naturally a very kind-hearted little child, she was really quite gratified when the Stork finally made an attempt to get a new view of her from the top of an unusually tall chimney, and fell down into it with a loud screech of dismay.

Presently the street ended at a great open space where the water spread out in every direction, like a lake. The day seemed to be breaking, and it was quite light; and as the sideboard sailed out into the open water, Dorothy caught sight of something like a fat-looking boat, floating at a little distance and slowly drifting toward her. As it came nearer it proved to be Mrs. Peevy’s big umbrella upside down, with a little party of people sitting around on the edge of it with their feet against the handle, and, to Dorothy’s amazement, she knew every one of them. There was the Admiral, staring about with his spy-glass, and Sir Walter Rosettes, carefully carrying his tobacco-plant as if it were a nosegay, and the Highlander, with his big watch dangling in the water over the side of the umbrella; and last, there was the little Chinese mandarin clinging convulsively to the top of the handle as if he were keeping a lookout from the masthead.

The sideboard brought up against the edge of the umbrella with a soft little bump, and the Admiral, hurriedly pointing his spy-glass at Dorothy so that the end of it almost touched her nose, exclaimed excitedly, “There she is! I can see her quite plainly,” and the whole party gave an exultant shout. The admiral exclaimed: “There she is! I can see her quite plainly,”

“How are you getting on now?” inquired Sir Walter, as if he had had her under close observation for a week at least.

“I’m getting on pretty well,” said Dorothy, mournfully. “I believe I’m crossing a ferry.”

“So are we,” said the Admiral, cheerfully. “We’re a Caravan, you know.”

“A Caravan?” exclaimed Dorothy, very much surprised.

“I believe I said ‘Caravan’ quite distinctly,” said the Admiral in an injured tone, appealing to the rest of the party; but no one said anything except the Highlander, who hastily consulted his watch and then exclaimed “Hurrah!” rather doubtfully.

“I understood what you said,” explained Dorothy, “but I don’t think I know exactly what you mean.”

“Never mind what he means,” shouted Sir Walter. “That’s of no consequence.”

“No consequence!” exclaimed the Admiral, flaring up. “Why, I mean more in a minute than you do in a week!”

“You say more in a minute than anybody could mean in a month,” retorted Sir Walter, flourishing his tobacco-plant.

“I can talk a year without meaning anything,” said the Highlander, proudly; but no one took any notice of this remark, which, of course, served him right.

The Admiral stared at Sir Walter for a moment through his spy-glass, and then said very firmly, “You’re a pig!” at which the Highlander again consulted his watch, and then shouted, “Two pigs!” with great enthusiasm, as if that were the time of day.

“And you’re another,” said Sir Walter, angrily. “If it comes to that, we’re all pigs.”

“Dear me!” cried Dorothy, quite distressed at all this. “What makes you all quarrel so? You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”

“We’re all ashamed of one another, if that will do any good,” said the Admiral.

“And, you see, that gives each of us two persons to be ashamed of,” added Sir Walter, with an air of great satisfaction.

“But that isn’t what I mean at all,” said Dorothy. “I mean that each one of you ought to be ashamed of himself.”

“Why, we’re each being ashamed of by two persons already,” said the Admiral, peevishly. “I should think that was enough to satisfy anybody.”

“But that isn’t the same thing,” insisted Dorothy. “Each particular him ought to be ashamed of each particular self.” This remark sounded very fine indeed, and Dorothy felt so pleased with herself for having made it that she went on to say, “And the truth of it is, you all argue precisely like a lot of little school-children.”

Now, Dorothy herself was only about four feet high, but she said this in such a superior manner that the entire Caravan stared at her with great admiration for a moment, and then began to give a little cheer; but just at this instant the umbrella made a great plunge, as if somebody had given it a sudden push, and the whole party tumbled into the bottom of it like a lot of dolls.

“What kind of a boat do you call this?” shouted Sir Walter, as they all scrambled to their feet and clung desperately to the handle.

“It’s a paragondola,” said the Admiral, who had suddenly become very pale. “You see, it isn’t exactly like an ordinary ship.”

“I should think not!” said Sir Walter, indignantly. “I’d as lief go to sea in a toast-rack. Why don’t you bring her head up to the wind?” he shouted as the paragondola took another plunge.

“I can’t!” cried the Admiral, despairingly; “she hasn’t got any head.”

“Then put me ashore!” roared Sir Walter, furiously.

Now this was all very well for Sir Walter to say, but by this time the paragondola was racing through the water at such a rate that even the sideboard could hardly keep up with it; and the waves were tossing about in such wild confusion that it was perfectly ridiculous for any one to talk about going ashore. In fact, it was a most exciting moment. The air was filled with flying spray, and the paragondola dashed ahead faster and faster, until at last Dorothy could no longer hear the sound of the voices, and she could just see that they were throwing the big watch overboard as if to lighten the ship. Then she caught sight of the Highlander trying to climb up the handle, and Sir Walter frantically beating him on the back with the tobacco-plant, and the next moment there was another wild plunge and the paragondola and Caravan vanished from sight.

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Chapter IV. Tree-Top Country. It was a very curious thing that the storm seemed to follow the Caravan as if it were a private affair of their own, and the paragondola had no sooner disappeared than Dorothy found herself sailing along as quietly as if such a thing as bad weather had never been heard of. But there was something very lonely about the sideboard now, as it went careering through the water, and she felt quite disconsolate as she sat on the little shelf and wondered what had become of the Caravan.

“If Mrs. Peevy’s umbrella shuts up with them inside of it,” she said mournfully to herself, “I’m sure I don’t know what they’ll do. It’s such a stiff thing to open that it must be perfectly awful when it shuts up all of a sudden,” and she was just giving a little shudder at the mere thought of such a thing, when the sideboard bumped up against something and she found that it had run into a tree. In fact, she found that she had drifted into a forest of enormous trees, growing in a most remarkable manner straight up out of the lake; and as she looked up she could see great branches stretching out in every direction far above her head, all interlaced together and covered with leaves as if it had been midsummer instead of being, as it certainly was, Christmas day.

The sideboard slowly floated along through this strange forest As the sideboard slowly floated along through this strange forest, Dorothy presently discovered that each tree had a little door in it, close to the water’s edge, with a small platform before it by way of a door-step, as if the people who lived in the trees had a fancy for going about visiting in boats. But she couldn’t help wondering who in the world, or, rather, who in the trees, the people went to see, for all the little doors were shut as tight as wax, and had notices posted up on them, such as “No admittance,” “Go away,” “Gone to Persia,” and many others, all of which Dorothy considered extremely rude, especially one notice which read, “Beware of the Pig,” as if the person who lived in that particular tree was too stingy to keep a dog.

Now all this was very distressing, because, in the first place, Dorothy was extremely fond of visiting, and, in the second place, she was getting rather tired of sailing about on the sideboard; and she was therefore greatly pleased when she presently came to a door without any notice upon it. There was, moreover, a bright little brass knocker on this door, and as this seemed to show that people were expected to call there if they felt like it, she waited until the sideboard was passing close to the platform and then gave a little jump ashore.

The sideboard took a great roll backward and held up its front feet as if expressing its surprise at this proceeding, and as it pitched forward again the doors of it flew open, and a number of large pies fell out into the water and floated away in all directions. To Dorothy’s amazement, the sideboard immediately started off after them, and began pushing them together, like a shepherd’s dog collecting a flock of runaway sheep; and then, having got them all together in a compact bunch, sailed solemnly away, shoving the pies ahead of it.

Dorothy now looked at the door again, and saw that it was standing partly open. The doorway was only about as high as her shoulder, and as she stooped down and looked through it she saw there was a small winding stairway inside, leading up through the body of the tree. She listened for a moment, but everything was perfectly quiet inside, so she squeezed in through the doorway and ran up the stairs as fast as she could go.

Dorothy makes a call in the tree-top country The stairway ended at the top in a sort of trap-door, and Dorothy popped up through it like a jack-in-the-box; but instead of coming out, as she expected, among the branches of the tree, she found herself in a wide, open field as flat as a pancake, and with a small house standing far out in the middle of it. It was a bright and sunny place, and quite like an ordinary field in every way except that, in place of grass, it had a curious floor of branches, closely braided together like the bottom of a market-basket; but, as this seemed natural enough, considering that the field was in the top of a tree, Dorothy hurried away to the little house without giving the floor a second thought.

As she came up to the house she saw that it was a charming little cottage with vines trained about the latticed windows, and with a sign over the door, reading— “I suppose they’ll take me for a customer,” she said, looking rather doubtfully at the sign, “and I haven’t got any money. But I’m very little, and I won’t stay very long,” she added, by way of excusing herself, and as she said this she softly pushed open the door and went in. To her great surprise, there was no inside to the house, and she came out into the field again on the other side of the door. The wall on this side, however, was nicely papered, and had pictures hanging on it, and there were curtains at the windows as if it had been one side of a room at some time or another; but there was a notice pasted up beside the door, reading— as if the rest of the house had gone out for a walk, and might be expected back at any time.

Now, as you may suppose, Dorothy was quite unprepared for all this, and she was looking about in great astonishment when she suddenly discovered that the furniture was at home, and was standing in a rather lonely manner quite by itself in the open field. It was, moreover, the strangest-looking furniture she had ever seen, for it was growing directly out of the floor in a twisted-up fashion, something like the grapevine chairs in Uncle Porticle’s garden; but the oddest part of it all was a ridiculous-looking bed with leaves sprouting out of its legs, and with great pink blossoms growing on the bed-posts like the satin bows on Dorothy’s little bed at the Blue Admiral Inn. All this was so remarkable that she went over to where the furniture was standing to take a closer look at it; and as she came up alongside the bed she was amazed to see that the Caravan, all three of them, were lying in it in a row, with their eyes closed as if they were fast asleep. This was such an unexpected sight that Dorothy first drew a long breath of astonishment and then exclaimed, “Jiminy!” which was a word she used only on particular occasions; and, as she said this, the Caravan opened their eyes and stared at her like so many owls.

“Why, what are you all doing here?” she said; at which the Admiral sat up in bed, and after taking a hurried look at her through his spy-glass, said, “Shipwrecked!” in a solemn voice and then lay down again.

“Did the paragonorer shut up with you?” inquired Dorothy, anxiously.

“Yes, ma’am,” said the Admiral.

“And squashed us,” added Sir Walter.

“Like everything,” put in the Highlander.

“I was afraid it would,” said Dorothy, sorrowfully; “I s’pose it was something like being at sea in a cornucopia.”

“Does a cornucopia have things in it that pinch your legs?” inquired Sir Walter, with an air of great interest.

“Oh, no,” said Dorothy.

“Then it wasn’t like it at all,” said Sir Walter, peevishly.

“It was about as much like it,” said the Admiral, “as a pump is like a post-captain”; and he said this in such a positive way that Dorothy didn’t like to contradict him. In fact she really didn’t know anything about the matter, so she merely said, as politely as she could, “I don’t think I know what a post-captain is.”

“I don’t either,” said the Admiral, promptly, “but I can tell you how they behave”; and sitting up in bed, he recited these verses:

Post-captain at the Needles and commander of a crew On the “Royal Biddy” frigate was Sir Peter Bombazoo; His mind was full of music, and his head was full of tunes, And he cheerfully exhibited on pleasant afternoons.

He could whistle, on his fingers, an invigorating reel, And could imitate a piper on the handles of the wheel; He could play in double octaves, too, all up and down the rail, Or rattle off a rondo on the bottom of a pail.

Then porters with their packages, and bakers with their buns, And countesses in carriages, and grenadiers with guns, And admirals and commodores, arrived from near and far To listen to the music of this entertaining tar.

When they heard the Captain humming, and beheld the dancing crew, The commodores severely said, “Why, this will never do!” And the admirals all hurried home, remarking, “This is most Extraordinary conduct for a captain at his post.”

Then they sent some sailing-orders to Sir Peter, in a boat, And he did a little fifing on the edges of the note; But he read the sailing-orders, as, of course, he had to do, And removed the “Royal Biddy” to the Bay of Boohgabooh.

He did a little fifing on the edges of the note Now, Sir Peter took it kindly, but it’s proper to explain He was sent to catch a pirate out upon the Spanish Main; And he played, with variations, an imaginary tune On the buttons of his waistcoat, like a jocular bassoon.

Then a topman saw the Pirate come a-sailing in the bay, And reported to the Captain in the customary way. “I’ll receive him,” said Sir Peter, “with a musical salute!” And he gave some imitations of a double-jointed flute.

Then the Pirate cried derisively, “I’ve heard it done before!” And he hoisted up a banner emblematical of gore. But Sir Peter said serenely, “You may double-shot the guns While I sing my little ballad of ‘The Butter on the Buns.’”

Then the Pirate banged Sir Peter and Sir Peter banged him back, And they banged away together as they took another tack. Then Sir Peter said politely, “You may board him, if you like”— And he played a little dirge upon the handle of a pike.

Then the “Biddies” poured like hornets down upon the Pirate’s deck, And Sir Peter caught the Pirate, and he took him by the neck, And remarked, “You must excuse me, but you acted like a brute When I gave my imitation of that double-jointed flute.”

Sir Peter caught the Pirate, and he took him by the neck So they took that wicked Pirate, and they took his wicked crew, And tied them up with double knots in packages of two; And left them lying on their backs in rows upon the beach With a little bread and water within comfortable reach.

Now the Pirate had a treasure (mostly silverware and gold), And Sir Peter took and stowed it in the bottom of his hold; And said “I will retire on this cargo of doubloons, And each of you, my gallant crew, may have some silver spoons.”

Now commodores in coach-and-fours, and corporals in cabs, And men with carts of pies and tarts, and fishermen with crabs, And barristers with wigs, in gigs, still gather on the strand— But there isn’t any music save a little German band.

“I think Sir Peter was perfectly grand!” said Dorothy, as the Admiral finished his verses. “He was so composed.”

“So was the poetry,” said the Admiral. “It had to be composed, you know, or there wouldn’t have been any.”

“That would have been fine!” remarked the Highlander.

The Admiral got so red in the face at this, that Dorothy thought he was going into some kind of a fit; but just at this moment there was a sharp rap at the door, and Sir Walter exclaimed, “That’s Bob Scarlet, and here we are in his flower-bed!”

“Jibs and jiggers!” said the Admiral, “I never thought of that. What do you suppose he’ll do?”

“Pick us!” said the Highlander, with remarkable presence of mind.

“Then tell him we’re all out,” said the Admiral to Dorothy in extreme agitation, and with this, the whole Caravan disappeared under the bed with all possible despatch.

“We are out, you know,” said Dorothy to herself, “because there’s no in for us to be in”; and then she called out in a very loud voice, “We’re all out in here!” which wasn’t exactly what she meant to say, after all.

But there was no answer, and she was just stooping down to call through the keyhole when she saw that the wall-paper was nothing but a vine growing on a trellis, and the door only a little rustic gate leading through it. “And, dear me!—where has the furniture gone to?” she exclaimed, for the curly chairs had changed into flower-pot stands, and the bed into a great mound of waving lilies, and she found herself standing in a beautiful garden.

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