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 Rh flourished was Scandinavia, The French lyrical dancing game came north just when what Professor Ker calls the "Viking industry" was passing away and the Scandinavian kingdoms were aspiring to enter into the comity of European nations. It carried all before it. The old native alliterative unrhymed verse, the old native literary culture, came to an end. The foreign culture planted in its place grew and flourished, and took on new and finer forms in its adopted home. The themes of the Danish ballads were not confined to the wandering tales,—the Singing Bone, the Elfin Lover, the hero poisoned by his sweetheart,—which the ballad has carried with it wherever it has penetrated. Political events, gallant feats of arms, and tragedies of the countryside, in Denmark and the sister-countries, were celebrated in ballads, which there "became the form and vehicle of original heroic poetry," and the Danish ballads, so say those who are conversant with the Northern tongues, surpass all others in fire and beauty.

How is such a complete and extraordinary revolution to be accounted for,—the native form of poetry discarded and the foreign style adopted in its place? Professor Kcr attributed it partly to the psychological moment at which the novel fashion was introduced, but mainly to the social conditions of the environment in which it was planted. The old Northern system of land tenure favoured the growth of a class of freeholders neither nobles nor peasants, but, as we should say, untitled gentry. Early Danish society was thus largely made up of small landowners, and was accordingly possessed of more solidarity and therewith more unity of culture than that of highly feudalized lands. "It is possible," says Professor Ker, "for a nation to be gentle all through, 'the Quality' not a distinct class from the Quantity." However this may be, Danish historians are


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 32 agreed that the ballads were originally, and for long, the pastime of the gentry. The Faroe Islanders, in their ballad-dances, have preserved what was the favourite amusement in the mediæval Danish country houses. Certain it is that when, in the sixteenth century, the current traditional ballads were at length committed to writing, it was by Danish ladies, and in the most important case at the instigation of the queen. Moreover, mediæval Denmark had scarcely any poetry besides the ballads. She had no literary poets, no Dante, no Chaucer. So the best poetic feeling of the country found expression in the shape of the ballad, which was the oral literature of a nation, not of a class.

When the old social order of Denmark passed away, the living original ballad passed away with it, and ballad-poetry is now but a survival,—the survival of what once was culture, the remains of which are gathered up by the folklore collector from the mouths of fishermen and peasants in lonely huts and obscure corners,—beautiful relics, but relics only.

But, long ere this stage was reached, the ballad-poetry of Scandinavia crossed the North Sea,—(thanks no doubt to the seafaring and commercial habits of the Northmen),—and found a congenial home in the Lowlands of Scotland. Something in the rough, simple unlettered life of the Borders, resembling that of its earlier home, formed a suitable nidus for its growth. It became part of the life of the country; it was used to record local events and tragedies as it had been on the other side of the sea. As it travelled southwards into England it lost much of its original grace and fragrance. Presently it was no longer

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Rh accompanied by dancing; it dropped its characteristic refrain. It degenerated in the hands of professional balladwriters; it got printed on broadsheets; it travelled in pedlars' packs. Like the Last Minstrel it

Divorced from the Customs to which it belonged, it became a dead relic, "a mere survival."

Incidentally, the history of the genesis and decay of the ballad-poetry of the North bears on another important point,—the place of the racial element in folklore. Though the geographical area covered by the ballads is not racial, but cultural, the racial element is not absent. We have the French setting the fashion to their neighbour-nations in styles of song and dance, as they did in architecture, in arms, and in chivalry, and as they do now in cookery and costume. In matters of method, France has always been the leader of Europe. Then we have the Northern nations exhibiting the special trait predicated of them by Professor Gwatkin, lecturing at Cambridge some ten or twelve years ago, (I quote from memory),—"They were not a people of marked original genius, but they were the best of learners, and soon bettered their masters." The occasion of his observation was the rapid transformation of the rude Northmen who settled on the French coast in the ninth and tenth centuries into the polished Norman chivalry of the eleventh. The "Norman" architecture which they brought with them into England speaks to this day of the mutual relations of France and Scandinavia, and Professor Ker's story of the connection between the French and


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 34 Danish ballads is unintentional evidence to the same effect. It is evident that race gives the ballads their colour, though culture gave them form and social environment vitality.

One more group of survivals must be mentioned before I close. It is one which has so far received little notice from collectors, and I am the more anxious to draw attention to it because it is one into which any resident in England can enquire for himself in his own locality, and because the details which would assuredly come to light in the course of such an enquiry would be of the utmost service in compiling the projected great edition of Brand. I refer to the Annual Wakes as they are called in the northern counties, known as Feasts in the southern counties, and Revels in the extreme south and west, still held in the majority of country villages on the anniversary of the patron saint of the village church. Few perhaps realize how many interesting features are connected with these local festivals,—the special viands prepared for them, the special sports celebrated at them, the dates (often reckoned by Old Style) on which they are held, and the agricultural seasons with which they coincide. One such wake was brought to my notice for the first time last autumn, that, namely, at West Witton in Wensleydale (Yorkshire), which begins on St. Bartholomew's Day (August 24th) and lasts several days. On the last day of the wake the children drag an effigy, supposed to represent the saint, up and down the village, and finally throw it on to a bonfire, shouting the following rhyme:

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 Length of last postabdominal segment, 16.5 mm

Width, 21.5 mm

Length of telson, 33 mm

Width, 23 mm

Total length of original specimen (not distended as in fossil state), 184 mm

Largest carapace observed:

Length of carapace, 28.5 mm

Width of carapace, 40.5 mm

Length of tergite, 23 mm

Width, 73 mm

A very large tergite [text figure 71] collected at Litchfield and possibly belonging to this species, has a length of 10 cm and a width of about 37 cm.

The largest telson observed measures:

Length, 60.5 mm

Width, 49 mm

This telson, which undoubtedly belongs to, indicates that the species attained at least twice the size of the complete individual represented on plate 69, figure 2 or a length of a foot and a half. If the large tergite from Litchfield belonged to this species, the animal reached a size of about 1.65 m or 5 feet, 5 inches.

Remarks. The species  was founded upon the carapace of a young individual from the waterlime at Litchfield, Herkimer co., N. Y. At the same time a specimen lacking the carapace, and showing only four segments of the abdomen and the ventral side of the cephalothorax was made the type of another species,. This specimen came from the same horizon, and a locality a few miles distant from Litchfield, viz, Waterville, Oneida co. A separate metastoma [op. cit. pl. 80A, p. 16] of the same shape as that shown in the type of  was also referred to the latter species.

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 in the same specimen, our larger collection of individuals in various growth stages and states of preservation leaves no doubt that the types of both belong to one species, which must be named , as the latter precedes the other in the original descriptions and is better characterized by being based on a carapace. Professor Whitfield's accurate drawings show all essential features of the type specimens of. We may add that Hall's figure 6, plate 80A, which is described as "a fragment of a crustacean associated with the  at Waterville, the relations of which have not been determined" is the broken fixed ramus of the pincers from a young individual of.

is quite distinct in its characters from all the European species. It is closely related to, in the similar form of the telson, but it is readily distinguished from the British type by characters of its own. One of these is the fishhooklike form of the extremities of the chelae and the different direction of their teeth. These features, at least the form of the distal ends of the chelae, are approached by, a species with widely different telson.

sp. Whiteaves. Canadian Naturalist. 1883. 10:100

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Billings, in Logan's Geology of Canada, cited their occurrence at Cape Bon Ami, Gaspé; the single specimen, however, proves to be not from the Bon Ami beds, but from the higher or Grande Grève limestone of the Lower Devonic. This specimen is a fragment of two abdominal segments, together having a length of 75 mm and covered with closely crowded, very coarse scales curved into the arc of a circle. It indicates a species of rather commanding dimensions. Sir William Logan also reported the


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 presence of Pterygotus remains in the Gaspé sandstone, though these were described by Dawson as plants of the genus Selaginites [op. cit. p. 399]. Remains of Pterygotus have also been found in the lower marine Devonic Dalhousie beds of Dalhousie, N. B., in fragments which appear to have been washed seaward of their proper sites. Near Campbellton, N. B., in indurated limestones containing fish remains of probable Upper Devonic age, are also such remains, which were first noted by Whiteaves when describing the fish fauna of this locality.

Fragments, presumably of Pterygotus, have been reported from the Lower Devonic of the Knoydart formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia, where they are associated with fish remains of the genus Pteraspis and Cephalaspis.

All of the occurrences referred to have been more or less particularly noticed by Clarke in Early Devonic History of New York and Eastern North America, but only that at Campbellton has furnished material adequate for description. This original material consists of a suite of three specimens, now in the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. These are a free chela, the coxa of a swimming leg and a small portion of a metastoma bearing traces of ornamentation. The chela is of slender form, straight, tapering regularly to the apex which is not preserved. The length is 50 mm, its proximal width, not counting the articulating process, is 9 mm, its distal width, at the point of fracture, about 3 mm. The ramus is but little compressed, its section irregular and convex, the greatest thickness being near the inner edge, whence the ramus abruptly narrows down to the dentate edge, and more gradually to the outer edge. The teeth are in two series, one of more numerous small sharp points, and one of larger distinctly furrowed teeth, the two


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 Rh is called "burning owd Barle." Obviously it cannot be accounted for by any post-Christian form of cult. It is a survival of something earlier, which has outlasted more than one set of beliefs, so that we have here in the Church-Wake an archaic survival and a survival from culture, meeting and coalescing in a single rite.

So great is the difference between Then and Now that I need hardly, I think, enter into any defence of the use of the word "survival" with reference to these old church dedications. What significance have the names of St. Pancras and St. Vedast to the ordinary Londoner of the present day } Even the best-known and best-authenticated saints are now, for the most part, regarded from a point of view widely different from that of the men who placed our ancient churches under their protecting care. I should like to say a great deal as to these subsidiary cults of mediæval Christendom, but I must not detain you too long. I will only point out that the dedication of a church usually reveals the approximate date of the establishment of a site of Christian worship on the spot, together with the special form and bias of the newly introduced cult. There were fashions in saints in the Middle Ages, as there were in the architecture and in armour. The Roman and Celtic missions, the British and the Anglo-Saxon Church, all had their special saints. The Norman Conquest introduced others, and the Crusades others again. Even the reasons which determined the choice of a particular saintly guardian may sometimes be discovered by local investigation.

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WELD (Dutch wouw, Swed., Dan. vau, Ger. Wau, weld; of unknown etymology),, or (Reseda Luteola). A plant of the natural order Resedaceæ and of the same genus as mignonette (q.v.), a native of waste places in many parts of Europe and introduced in some places in the Eastern United States. It is cultivated to some extent for dyeing. Good weld must have flowers of a beautiful yellow or greenish color, and abound in leaves; that which is small, thin-stemmed, and yellow is better than that which is large, thick-stemmed, and green; that which grows on dry, sandy soils is better than that produced on rich and moist soils. For the greatest production of coloring matter the plant should be cut before the fruits show much development, otherwise the pigment diminishes. Though in part supplanted by chemical dyes, weld is still a valuable dyestuff. It serves equally for linen, woolen, and silk, dyeing with proper management all shades of yellow, and producing a bright and beautiful color. Large quantities of weld are exported from France.

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 series, however, not being sharply separated, and the larger series being surpassed by one tooth of much greater dimensions. The coxa indicates a large specimen; its manducatory edge is 38 mm long and bears a series of 13 stout, blunt teeth. The other specimen is probably a fragment of the posterior half of the metastoma, with its counterpart, showing the characteristic semicircular scales of Pterygotus.

These fragments point to a species of considerable dimensions, and all bear a distinct similarity to the corresponding parts of the giant  of the British Old Red sandstone. There is still a differential element present in the regular tapering of the chela and the presence of a greater number of smaller teeth in the American type, both features recalling. As the Devonic beds at Campbellton are believed to correspond in their facies and age to the Old Red sandstone of Europe, the similarity with  is quite suggestive. Probably with larger collections this species may prove to be a vicarious form of the British type.

? Grote & Pitt. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. Bul. 1877. 3: 18, fig. 1

Pohlman. Ibid. 1881. 4: 17, fig. 1–3

sp. Pohlman. Ibid. p. 18, fig. 4

Pohlman. Ibid. p. 42, pl. 2, fig. 3

Pohlman. Ibid. p. 43, pl. 3, fig. 1

?sp. Pohlman. Ibid. p. 44, pl. 3, fig. 2

Pohlman. Ibid. p. 44

Pohlman. Ibid. 1886. 5: 24, pl. 3, fig. 1

(Huxley & Salter) Pohlman. Ibid. p. 27

,,   Laurie. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Trans. v. 37, pt 2, 1893, p. 515, 517

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36 adopted by the Church. As a matter of fact, local annual feasts which we cannot but call pre-Christian still linger, independently of churches or parishes, in the well-dressings of the north of England and the hill-wakes of my own special county, Shropshire. There was usually some special rite to be performed at these hill-wakes, and even sometimes a mythic pretext for the ascent of the hill. At Pontesford Hill wakes, which were kept up on Palm Sunday within living memory, and perhaps linger still, the excuse was the search for a golden arrow, dropped by a nameless king in battle, and only to be found by the predestined person, upon which event some curse was to be removed, or some great estate was to change hands. The story varies. A "haunted yew-tree" grew,—no doubt still grows,—upon the hill, and the first spray gathered from it on this day was held to be a talisman against all misfortune for the year, and, if any one could run down the steep side of the hill and dip a finger into a pool at the foot, reputed to be bottomless, he or she would inevitably marry the first person of the opposite sex encountered after the feat. I must not omit to add the historical fact that a battle was really fought on or beneath Pontesford Hill in the year 661, between the West Saxons and the Welsh. There is a Saxon or British camp on the hill, and there is some earthwork or other early monument on the site of, I think, every hill-wake I have heard of.

Into some such environment as this were the saintly patrons imported. The hill-wakes, whose raison d'être in some vanished social system is now absolutely forgotten, and probably indiscoverable, are now mere survivals, if indeed they still survive at all. The church-wakes, wanting the living religious belief which once animated them, are also only survivals. But the way in which, even in survival,


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The quarrying operations in the cement rocks near Buffalo have brought to light numerous fragments of large Pterygoti which, as they were found, were described as new species by the curators of the Buffalo Museum. Seven species were thus named. Later years have furnished more complete specimens and these show that only two species of Pterygotus can at best be recognized at this locality. One of these is identical with Hall's ; the other a form of gigantic proportions, is here discussed.

The history of this species, briefly stated, is as follows:

In 1875 Grote and Pitt described and figured the masticatory edge of a gigantic coxa [pl. 79, fig. 1], which they termed, stating that "  (sic) and   are evidently very much smaller species, measuring scarcely as many inches as   does feet, and are undoubtedly distinct."

Then Pohlman in 1881 described and figured the swimming leg here reproduced on plate 78, figure 2, as representing his new species, referring also a fixed ramus of a large chela to the same species. The latter is identical in form with the same part of a much smaller individual figured by Hall on his plate 80A, figure 6 as "undetermined crustacean." The following year Pohlman published a further paper on fossils from the waterlime group of Buffalo in which a telson of a young individual slightly more slender than the average telson is made the type of a species,, and a detached ultimate postabdominal segment that was mistaken for a telson is used as basis of a species named. In regard to


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 Rh they show remnants of the imported Belief interwoven into the groundwork of native Custom is to my mind an additional testimony to the Essential Unity of Folklore.

This, then, is the view that it seems to me the Society should endeavour to set before the world,—that Folklore is not "a fortuitous concourse of atoms," but an entity, the product of the human mind, made up of three complementary elements,—Belief, Custom, and Story,—and liable to be influenced and varied by external circumstances. Racial idiosyncrasies, geographical isolation, economic changes, migration, warfare, conquest, slavery, and the peaceful importation of foreign culture, all affect and influence the folklore of individual peoples. When any of its component elements are dropped, the remainder constitute what we call a survival. Custom may lose its raison d'être or its animating belief, and survive as a mere fossil. Belief, unsupported by social custom, may still persist as a living principle of action. Both may assimilate new beliefs and new customs so thoroughly that it requires close analysis to distinguish the new from the old. In varying degrees these phenomena are common to the folklore of both civilised and uncivilised peoples.

Students have made some progress in ascertaining what causes folklore to decay, but what causes the surviving elements to survive? What vacuum does the survival fill? What need of human nature, craving to be supplied, keeps it alive through the ages? What human idiosyncrasy preserves it when it has reached a fossil state? These are questions not answered yet, scarcely even approached. They remain as a problem for the future.

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 this telson we may say that there appears to have existed some variation in form, as there is among our specimens one showing the other extreme, namely, a relatively broad form [pl. 72, fig. 3]; none of these differences seems sufficient for the erection of new species, since the occurrence of transitional stages is obvious. Moreover, a slight lateral compression which clearly has affected some of the specimens, and specially the type of

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8 and received the rod. Summoned again to the presence of the master of the house to give an account of his judgement, he describes with rapture the charms of the lady to whom he awarded the prize. 'She fell,' he said, 'from the arms of the moon, robbing her of her radiance.' When he had finished, Love and his attendant train, and the forty women, vanished, and Belthandros made his way out of the castle and rode off with his servants.

This beauty-show was not borrowed, so far as we know, from any literary predecessor, nor need we suppose that the author was indebted to the ancient judgement of Mount Ida. He has simply translated into fiction the old Byzantine custom of the bride-show. At one period the young emperors used to marry not foreign princesses, who were regarded as barbarians, but Greek ladies; and for this purpose discreet messengers were sent into the provinces to discover maidens who were well educated and refined, and conformed to a certain canon of beauty. These agents were provided with measures—the measure, for instance, of the ideal foot. All the girls who were chosen assembled on a certain day in the palace at Constantinople, and the bride was selected by the young man, generally under the auspices of his mother. The judgement of beauty in the Castle of Love is a Byzantine bride-show in a Byzantine palace.

The sequel of the future of Belthandros can be briefly told. He reaches Antioch, and enters the service of the king. Here we have come into a dominion where the feudal system prevails. Belthandros has to become the king's lizios—the Greek form of 'liegeman'. The king is a, his wife is a ; for the title Basileus was strictly reserved for the emperor. It is clear that the poet conceives Antioch as a Frank dominion, but he does not say so; he leaves this vague, and the king's


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Rh daughter, Chrysantza, has a Greek name. Belthandros recognizes her as the maiden to whom he had awarded the wand, and she, too, recognizes him; for the poet conceives that she was actually present on that night in the Castle of Love. For more than four years they woo each other by secret signs; at last they meet in a garden and declare their love. When he leaves her, Belthandros, who had no right to enter the garden, is arrested by the guards who were set to keep watch over the princess. The danger which threatened the prince at this discovery is diverted by a device of Chrysantza. Her devoted maid, Phaidrokaza, pretends that Belthandros had entered the forbidden precincts for a tryst with herself; and the king immediately arranges a marriage between his liegeman and his daughter's maid. For nearly a year Belthandros carried on his amour with the mistress under cover of his marriage with her servant, and no one else knew of the matter except his own squires. But he became uneasy; he feared that the business might leak out, and he induced Chrysantza to fly with him. Accompanied by their faithful attendants, they escaped from the palace one dark and stormy night. In crossing a swollen river the servants and horses were drowned, and the hero and heroine were washed ashore on opposite banks. Each thinks that the other is dead. Wandering along the edge, Chrysantza comes on the body of one of the men; the features are defaced, but as the clothes and sword of Belthandros are near she believes that the corpse is his, and is about to kill herself when she hears his voice in the distance calling her by name. He swims across, and they make their way down the river to the sea-coast. A ship is approaching. It is a Greek ship, bearing a search party sent by the Emperor Rhodophilus to search the world for Belthandros. His


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Rh acting subsequently can constitutionally fix "value," nor be criminally punished for failure to satisfactorily perform forced attempts beyond the power of human minds. It can be clearly seen why the doctrine of "free competition" has always been so safeguarded, for, without it, men can never properly ascertain their constitutional rights as to their property and Liberty. It must also be understood why the Supreme Court has always insisted upon the right of both those desiring to sell and those wishing to purchase, to fix freely and in their own untrammeled discretion both what the one is willing to take and the other is willing to give, for, without this right, "free competition" cannot exist, nor a correct ascertainment of "value" be found.

All this, perhaps, may be but an instance of the adage that "Truth lies at the bottom of the well." But, nevertheless, this is the truth, and truth ascertained and declared by the Supreme Court itself. And for the purposes of interpretation, ascertained before the passage of the Lever Act, and, therefore, definitely determining the terms therein involved. It cannot be believed that these provisions will ever be departed from, much less that even, if so, men will be punished for having loyally followed and been guided by them whilst they remained in full and self-vindicating determination. If any one questions all or any of this, he is earnestly requested to show a single decision of the Supreme Court that in anywise does or has ever departed from it.

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 the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences and its posterior portion is here reproduced in text figure 76. Closer study of this indicates that again an ultimate abdominal segment has been mistaken for a telson, as the fact of its equal width with the preceding segments readily shows. The misleading bilobed aspect is produced by a strong development of the median dorsal keel which appears in this cast as a deep cleft. In the true British  the telson is nearly twice as long as the ultimate postabdominal segment.

As it would be fatuous to base a species on the manducatory edge of a coxa or even the whole coxa itself, Grote and Pitt's term  is here rejected. This is the more necessary, as these authors afterward referred to their species the free ramus of a chelicera which is clearly identical with  Hall.

Pohlman's,  ,  ,   (?) and   all belong to one species. We adopt the first name here used,, emending the species by a fuller description.

Description. Body slender, lanceolate in outline, five times as long as wide.

Cephalothorax. The carapace in mature specimens is trapezoidal, the lateral margins subparallel, slightly convex or angular, forming an obtuse angle with the slightly convex anterior margin. The posterior edge is broadly concave. The surface seems to have been uniformly convex. The compound eyes form the antelateral angles of the carapace, are subelliptic in outline and equal about one half the length of the carapace in younger and four ninths in the largest individuals.

The ocelli and the doublure are as in.

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Elementary Principles of Economics. MacMillan Company, 1919.

Stabilizing the Dollar. MacMillan Company, 1920.

Progress and Poverty. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916.

Money and Prices. Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1919.

Elements of Economics.

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Rh life). In the end, however, he comes to his own either because the cure cannot be completed without him or because his wife brings the older princes to book.

This summary I should be unwilling to have considered as anything more than a tentative sketch, since a systematic study of the material may bring to light certain features which I have overlooked. It will, however, serve its purpose here.

This simple form of The Water of Life is not that with which The Grateful Dead has combined. Indeed, the opinion that this union was secondary to that of The Grateful Dead with The Poison Maiden and The Ransomed Woman is strengthened by the fact that it is found with both of these compound types, and that The Water of Life almost invariably appears in a somewhat distorted form. In point of fact, the latter tale seems to have lent itself with remarkable facility to combination with other themes. Thus it is frequently found mixed with The Skilful Companions (both with

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126 and without The Grateful Dead), The Lady and the Monster and The Thankful Beasts.

The reason for the existence of the compounds just mentioned is not far to seek. With The Skilful Companions there is a ready point of contact in the hero's need for aid in the accomplishment of his quest, another in the circumstance that three or more companions set out together with a common end in view, and still another in the fact that a maiden is rescued by them. To The Lady and the Monster, at ' least in those variants where The Grateful Dead appears. The Water of Life has the necessary approach in the rôle of the lady herself. As for The Thankful Beasts, their appearance at opportune

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Rh moments when the heroes of folk-tales need assistance is too frequent to require justification in any particular case. It is with such combinations as these, intricate and involved, that many variants of The Grateful Dead are found joined. Sometimes one element, sometimes another, predominates, so that the threads which unite them are hopelessly snarled. Sometimes The Water of Life is lost in the entanglement, or only appears as a distorted trait, while The Skilful Companions or The Lady and the Monster come out more clearly. Through this labyrinth we must painfully take our way, exercising what caution we can. The present guide recognizes the danger of losing the road and does not pretend to more than a rough and ready knowledge of the wilderness. Accordingly, he undertakes only to conduct the curious wayfarer by the least difficult of the paths that traverse it.

Let us first consider the tales into which The Poison Maiden and The Ransomed Woman do not enter, which have only The Grateful Dead + The Water of Life or some kindred theme. These include Maltese, Polish, Hungarian I., Rumanian II., Straparola II., Venetian, Sicilian, Treu Heinrich, and Harz II. They are as widely different in their characteristics as in their sources.

Maltese has the following form: The three sons of a king successively go out in search of a bird, the song of which will make their father young. The elder two lose their all by gambling with a maiden in a palace by the way. The youngest brother pays four thousand pounds sterling to bury properly a man who has been dead eight months. He is warned against the maiden by a ghost, and so wins all from her (by using his own cards), thus rescuing his brothers. When he comes to the castle, the ghost again appears, and tells him to take the bird that he finds in a dirty cage. On the way back he is thrown overboard from the steamboat by his brothers,

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128 but is saved by the ghost, who appears in the form of a rock with a tree on it. He is rescued by another steamer, and comes home in rags, where he is recognized by the bird, which has hitherto refused to sing. The brothers are banished.

According to the Polish story, a poor scholar pays his all for the burial of a corpse lying maltreated by the way. Later he goes to sleep under an oak, and on awaking finds his purse full of gold. He is robbed of this while crossing a stream, by some scoundrels who cast him into the water; but he is rescued by the ghost of the dead man, who appears in the form of a plank and gives him the power of turning himself into a crow, a hare, or a deer. He becomes a huntsman to a king, whose daughter lives on an inaccessible island. In her castle is a sword with which a man could overcome the greatest army. When war threatens, the king offers the princess to any man who can obtain the sword. By means of his power of metamorphosis the hero carries her a letter and wins her love. When he exhibits his magical powers, she cuts off a bit of the fur, or a feather, from each creature into which he turns. With the sword he then starts back to court, but on the way he is shot by a rival and robbed of the sword and a letter from the princess. He lies in the way in the form of a dead hare till the war is ended and the rival is about to marry the princess, when he is revived and warned by the ghost. At court he is recognized by the princess, who proves his tale by having him turn into various shapes and fitting the samples which she has taken.

In Hungarian I. a soldier gave all he had to an old beggar, who in turn gave him the power to change at will into a dove, a fish, or a hare. He took service with a king, and one day was sent back to the castle for a magic ring. There he met the princess, and exhibited to her his powers of metamorphosis, permitting her to

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68 Fig. 15 (Pl. I.). A pendant formed of a piece of dark amber-coloured hardstone, mounted in brass ; Madrid. The stone appears to be a very small, but carefully made, neolithic axe (or ornament in the form of an axe) mounted with its cutting edge downward. There is a hole for suspension near the upper limit, indicating that the stone had probably been used as an amulet before having been placed in its present mounting. Fig. 16 (Pl. I.). A heart-shaped piece of dark grey fossil madrepore coral, apparently ancient, showing traces of having been mounted in metal, presumably as a pendant; Seville. Madreporite, which belongs to that class of amulets of which the effect is produced by the confusing of the evil-working eye or evil-working mind, seems to have been a favourite amulet amongst the ancient Romans, just as it still is amongst their Italian descendants, and, to a lesser degree, elsewhere where Roman influence penetrated. In Spain, however, modern amulets of madreporite seem to be extremely rare, if not altogether lacking. Fig. 17 (Pl. I.). An ovoid piece of clear glass, flattened on each side so that it resembles somewhat a human eye, mounted in silver as a pendant ; San Sebastian. A hole has been bored longitudinally at some period anterior to that of the mounting. Probably, like Fig. 29 (Pl. VIII.), an eye form against fascination. Fig. 18 (Pl. I.). A facetted piece of clear glass, mounted in silver as a pendant ; Madrid. Near the top there is a small hole for suspension. Probably originally a drop from a crystal chandelier, later mounted as an amulet against the evil eye. Fig. 19 (Pl. I.). A pendant ornament, probably for a child, formed of a piece of clear glass cut as if twisted of three heavy strands and mounted in silver ; Madrid. Concerning this form, which is unusual, I could obtain no information ; I think that it may have been considered protective for reasons similar to those given for the next specimen.


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Rh Fig. 20 (Pl. I.). A "sucker" (chupador) for an infant, composed of a piece of four-lobed and twisted clear glass mounted in silver as a pendant ; Granada. Said, by the vendor, to be considered protective against the evil eye. The glass is so shaped as to produce a confusing effect when it is turned even slightly on its axis, and this (possibly together with the crystalline appearance of the glass) would seem a valid reason for the assumed amuletic properties. Fig. 21 (Pl. I.), A "sucker" for an infant, composed of a rod of clear glass containing twisted bands of blue, red, and white, mounted in silver as a pendant ; San Sebastian. Two other specimens, of similar form, differing in the breadth of the bands or in their colours, were obtained at the same time as this, and other similar specimens were noted at Madrid and Seville. In all instances the objects were referred to as being amuletically protective. Fig. 22 (Pl. I.). A small pendant of twisted opaque white glass, in a silver socket ; Segovia. For an infant, against the evil eye.

Coral. — Fig. 23 (Pl. I.). A large piece of red coral, set in a gilt silver socket, with a small bell attached to the lower end; Madrid. An amulet for an infant (whose name is on the socket) of, probably, the seventeenth century, corresponding to the English "coral and bells." Shells. — The opercule of the trochus shell is still commonly sold and used against headache. Generally it is set in a finger ring as shown in Fig. 44 (Pl. VII.), but I have noted pendants of it also, and, especially interesting, a pair of ear-rings (from Segovia) for the cure of megrims. Fig. 24 (Pl. I.). A small shell, set in a silver socket with a chain ; Madrid. Amuletic intention not ascertained. Fig. 25 (Pl. I.). A large shell, mounted in silver and with small bells ; Madrid. An amulet for an infant. The surface of the shell has been removed so as to expose a layer showing numerous broken and wavy lines. The vendor did not know of any special amuletic significance attached to the shell. Fig. 26 (Pl. I.). A heart-shaped piece of mother-of-pearl, inscribed IHS, mounted in silver : Madrid. Mother-of-pearl seems to be rarely used for pendants in Spain, and the belief in its


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. It does not differ materially in form from the same part in the British and Russian species. It is longer than any tergite, its length being one fourth of the width; and its posterior margin has, as pointed out by Woodward, the form of a bracket, while the anterior margin is gently concave and the lateral margins run obliquely forward and inward, the anterior angles being distinctly rounded away.

The transverse line of the operculum, which has hitherto been observed only in Eurypterus, is quite distinctly seen near the margin of the right half of the operculum and can be traced to about one half the distance to the median suture.

The four following sternites are readily distinguished from the tergites by their greater length and the round sweep of their lateral margins. The antelateral angles have not been seen in our specimens on account of the strong overlap of the sternites which must have amounted to fully one half the length of the plates. The doublure of the posterior margin is narrow. The median suture is visible in the operculum and the next sternite. In specimen plate 77, figure 3, the third sternite has split with a straight cleft, thus indicating a line of weakness where the suture might be expected. The doublure of the posterior margin is narrow, amounting to only one fifth of the exposed part of the sternite [pl. 72]; and in the operculum it seems to have been reduced to a narrow band but 1 mm wide in mature specimens. The lateral doublure is well seen on the left side of the specimen; it attains the width of the posterior doublure in its postlateral angle but narrows so rapidly that it does not reach the antelateral angle.

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70 intrinsic amuletic virtues (against the evil eye), common in Italy, I did not find amongst the persons I questioned. Bones and Teeth. — Fig. 27 (Pl. I.). Two bones (the "ear-bones") from the heads of fishes, mounted in silver as pendants; Segovia. Said to be worn by children, against accidents and the effects of the evil eye. These bones were obtained together, and are the only mounted examples of the kind I niet with in Spain. On the three occasions that I have obtained such bones in Spain (Segovia, Granada, Madrid), and on the one occasion in Italy (Rome), they have been in pairs. An explanation of this fact may lie in their use as amulets against ear-troubles, as noted by Dr. Bellucci of occasional occurrence in Umbria, or in their degradation from specially curative amulets of this kind to simple amulets of a generally protective nature, or in their origin in pairs.

Fig. 28 (Pl. I.). Jawbone of a small carnivore, mounted in silver as a pendant; Seville. History and intention not known to vendor. Fig. 29 (Pl. I.). A piece of bone, or a diseased tooth mounted inverted (i.e., root outward, an unusual mounting for a tooth), in a silver socket ; Madrid. Specific amuletic intention not known to vendor. Bells. — Fig. 30 (Pl. II.). A small bell, of gilt silver, to be worn suspended from a child's waist ; Madrid. Bells of similar character are to be found in numbers such as to indicate that they must have been in fairly common use in Spain. On a portrait of a young child by Velasquez (No. 1196 in the Prado Gallery) at


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Rh Madrid, painted about the middle of the seventeenth century, is shown a bell almost identical with the one here illustrated. (See also notes below, and Nos. 23 and 25.) Sirens and Tritons. — Since my earlier paper was published I have seen of sirens three specimens not reported there, all of the same type and style of workmanship, two of them at Madrid and one just beyond the northern border of Spain. Fig. 31 (Pl. II.). A flat silver child's pendant, worked on both sides, representing a triton blowing a trumpet ; Madrid. Along the lower edge are five loops for little bells, of which one still bears its bell, two bear old religious medals, and two are empty. The medals (a silver one of S. James, and a silver-mounted brass one of the Virgin and a Saint), were said by the vendor to have been in place when he obtained the ornament. Their addition is interesting as illustrating one form of the tendency to give a religious flavour to profane amulets. An ornament cast in the same form, but tinished in a different style, with all its bells in place, was obtained at Seville, and another was noted at the same place. Another triton, of similar type but of finer design and workmanship, was noted at Madrid. Fig. 32 (Pl. II.). A small flat silver child's pendant, of crude workmanship, representing a triton blowing a trumpet ; Seville. The triton is furnished with a wing like an angel, and has three bells along the lower edge. Fig. 33 (Pl. II.). A pendant, of gilt repoussé silver, finished on both sides, in the form of a triton holding a pecten shell (an emblem of S. James; compare No. 31) and a shell trumpet; Seville. Although without bells it may be, like Nos. 31 and 32, a child's amulet. These tritons were called (possibly merely through ignorance of their true name) sirenas by the people in whose shops they were found ; they may have taken the place, in Seville, of the true sirens which seem to occur more commonly in Northern Spain. The trumpet (a horn), which the triton is generally represented as blowing, may have contributed to their choice as children's amulets. Musical Horns. — The two specimens described below are children's belled ornamental whistles. The type is rather uncommon, so that no information was obtained as to the reason for the


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72 choice of musical horns as models, but it would seem likely that this choice was aided, if not dictated, by the favour in which representations of animals' horns are held as children's amulets. Fig. 34 (Pl. II.). A musical horn, of heavy gilt silver, with six small bells along the lower edge and one attached to the elaborate suspending chain; Madrid, (but obtained at Saragossa by the vendor). Apparently of the same workmanship as the sirens, (two of which, at least, are known to have come from Saragossa,) and as the lion noted below. Fig. 35 (Pl. II.). A musical horn, of silver, with five small bells attached to the body ; San Sebastian. Although of much lighter rnetal, this resembles No. 34 in certain details ; it seems, however, to be of somewhat later date. Lions. — Fig. 36 (Pl. II.). A crowned lion, of heavy gilt silver, with five small bells attached to the feet and neck and one attached to the elaborate suspending chain ; Madrid, (but-obtained at Saragossa by the vendor). A child's ornamental whistle, apparently of the same period and workmanship as the sirens and No. 34. No information as to any atnuletic intention of the lion was obtained, (excepting the suggestion that it might give strength to the child,) although the ornament as a whole was said to be an amulet. There is a similar lion in the collection of jewellery at South Kensington, and another in the Louvre Museum ; another, somewhat ruder in finish, was noted in France near the Spanish border. Amulets embracing Religious Conceptions. — The two specimens described immediately below consist of thin bronze medals, apparently of the seventeenth century, resembling Byzantine coins, bent into a cup-shape and arranged for suspension. From only one person, an old woman at Madrid, was any information concerning their use in Spain obtained ; they seem to be unknown to most people at present. They resemble an amulet described by Bellucci as obtained at Aquila, and some obtained by me at Verona and Venice.


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 Fig. 37 (Pl. II.). A bowl-shaped bronze (?) medal (?), worn smooth on both faces, mounteil in silver with a loop for attachment at each end ; Madrid. The bronze has a hole near each end, serving to fasten it before the silver mounting was put on. Said to be for the cure and the subsequent prevention of erysipelas (erisipela). Fig. 38 (Pl. II.). A bowl-shaped bronze medal, with, the outer face worn smooth, and with a saint bearing a cross upon the inner face ; Seville. A hole for suspension, elongated by much usage, is near the upper edge. No information was obtained concerning it further than that it was an amulet and (by a leading question) "Byzantine."

Several bronze medals of S. Anastasius were noted, bearing on their obverse the head of the saint and an inscription such as "Imago • S • Anasiasi • M • et • M.," and on their reverse an inscription such as " Im • S • Anasta • Mon • et • Mart • cvivs • aspec • fugari • dœmon • morbosq • repell • Acta • 2 • Con • Nic • testant • Rovmæ." The specific application of these medals in Spain was not ascertained ; in Italy they are used against demoniacal possession, witches, and sickness. Annually, on June 23rd, the day before St. John's Day, a ceremony takes place in one of the principal plazas at San Sebastian. A large ash-tree having been erected, at about 4 p.m. the Chapter of the Parish of S. Vicente, preceded by the municipal band, marches to the tree, which is then formally blessed. The tree is then "burnt" by lighting a small quantity of inflammable material placed about it, and is finally overthrown in order that it may be stripped of its limbs and branches by the great crowd (largely children and young people) gathered for the purpose. The pieces are eagerly scrambled for by the younger element, while the more sedate spectators ask for bits from those fortunate enough to have secured large pieces. The pieces are hung up within houses, or upon balconies, and are said to bring good luck.


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74 Errata in Former Paper. — In the original paper, under Fig. 77 (Pl. V.), read "N. S. de las Angustias" instead of "S. Angustias." In the last paragraph of the notes on Spanish Votive Offerings, the statement as to the purpose of the small silver objects there referred to is incorrect. These objects are not offerings made before the granting of a request for intercession ; each is a symbol (escudo, i.e. scutcheon) of the Virgin of a certain locality, and is to be worn upon the special dress assumed in certain cases in the fulfilment of a vow made to that form of the Virgin.

writing this account of old customs, charms, and superstitions from recollections of what I have myself seen and heard in the village of Long Handborough, and of what I have been told by my mother, who was a native of the neighbouring village of Barnard Gate and whose memory would go back to about 1840. The few notes from other sources I have carefully distinguished. As I have tried to make a full record of the local folklore known to me, naturally many items appear in it which are very familiar in other places, but the repetition seems necessary for the sake of completeness. As so much of my material is widely spread, no attempt has been made to note the numerous parallels in other counties. Long Handborough is about three miles from Woodstock, and about eight and a half miles from Oxford. It is usually called Handborough ('Amborough in dialect), except when it is necessary to distinguish it from Church Handborough, which is about a mile distant. The inhabitants of the villages in Oxfordshire consisted of the 'gentlefolk,' the 'respectable people,' and the 'poor folk.' The word 'respectable' did not apply in any sense to the conduct of those persons, but only to their social position. The 'gentlefolk' were usually the squire, if there was one, the clergyman, and


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 line of the dorsal side is likewise marked, in the middle third of its length, by a keel and covering of massive scales.

The telson is very broadly obovate to circular in outline. It surpasses the ultimate segment in length and in width by one third. The character of the marginal serrations is as in ; and as in the latter, the telson possessed a median axis or thickening which here is equipped on the dorsal side, with large spines [pl. 73, fig. 2].

Appendages. The form of the epistoma could not be made out in this species.

Some of the preoral appendages or chelicerae are so admirably preserved as to shed light on the structure of these organs and to decide the much disputed number of their segments and the character of the basal attachment. These appendages were long and very powerful, their length equaling fully one half that of the body without the telson. The first segment is subcylindrical, about eight times as long as wide in the compressed state; contracted in the basal seventh of its length, and very gradually expanding toward the distal end. The next segment, which with the third forms the vicious looking pincers or chelae, is of about equal length with the first and easily revolved on it with a rounded basal articulating surface. The basal third of the second segment is inflated, evidently to receive the strong muscles operating the free ramus. Both rami are nearly straight or slightly convex outward, tapering toward the tip and relatively slender. Their distal parts are not roundly curved as in  and the British species,   and , but end in a sharp distal point and each carries a terminal tooth directed slightly inward, resembling in this structure the jaws of. The fixed ramus carries on the proximal half an irregular series of teeth directed obliquely forward, and on the distal half, smaller teeth that stand vertically. One or several of the oblique teeth surpass all others in length and extend daggerlike into the cavity between the jaws. They are finely barbed on the inner margin, a feature not observed in any congeneric


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 species. The barbs are quite distinct in specimen, plate 77 figure 3 and still better shown in the fragment reproduced in plate 74, figure 5. They are broad and low near the point of the teeth and become sharp and narrow near its base. Between the larger teeth more numerous and much smaller denticles are everywhere intercalated. The movable ramus carries in its basal part two (in the younger) or three (in the older individuals) stronger teeth directed forward and an irregularly alternating series of mostly smaller teeth on the other parts. The latter all stand vertical in the jaw. One of them surpasses the others in length and is flanked by a group of teeth of about half its length. The edges of these are smooth. All teeth are longitudinally striated. The specimen, plate 77, figure 3, shows apertures near the base of the teeth on the movable ramus.

The walking legs or endognathites are not very well displayed in our material; and the basal segments fail in all save one specimen [pl. 57, fig. 3]. In the latter the coxae even retain the epicoxites in position, the only case observed in the entire eurypterid material at our disposal. The coxa is slender, with a sigmoidal curvature and the manducatory edge carries a series of about nine teeth. The first two segments appear to be short, ringlike. The legs are slender and relatively longer in this species than in most of its allies, attaining twice the length of the cephalothorax; smooth, cylindrical and tapering regularly toward the blunt spine forming the last joint. The middle segments were longer than both the basal ones and the last. The four pairs do not seem to have differed materially in length.

The swimming legs were relatively slender and small extending but little beyond the posterior margin of the third tergite in the older. The coxa is of enormous size in relation to the remainder of the leg. It is half as long as the latter, less the small paddle, and its expansion covers half the underside of the carapace [pl. 78, fig. 2]. Its principal part is rectangular in outline, the interior and posterior sides nearly straight and the others convex, the outer side having a deep sinus in the middle


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 for the articulation with the next segment. The gnathobase is a strong trapezoidal lobe connected by a contracted neck with the main body of the coxa. On the inner or slightly curved edge, it bears 13 relatively blunt teeth which decrease in size posteriorly with a slight backward direction. The first tooth is distinctly the largest and diverges from the others, and the last teeth at the posterior end (the 14th and 15th of the other species) coalesce into a rounded lobe. The circular opening near the posterior

border of the coxae which occurs in Limulus, Eurypterus and Hughmilleria, has not been seen in Pterygotus.

The second segment is short and ringlike, broadest on the posterior side and provided with a concave outer margin. The third appears wedgelike and is broadest on the anterior side; the fourth is again ringlike, broader than the preceding segment and broadest on the posterior side. The fifth segment is quite like the corresponding part in, triangular semioval in shape, the anterior margin the longest and the distal margin deeply notched; the sixth segment is irregularly rhomboidal


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 in form, its proximal margin furnished with a strong process that fits into the corresponding notch of segment five, forming a strong articulation, and its distal margin is produced bluntly to articulate with the seventh segment. The latter is the largest one in the swimming leg after the coxa. Its longest edge equals in length the preceding five segments. It is oval in form, as in other species, flat and expands toward the distal end. Its proximal margin is bilobed for articulation with the sixth segment and its distal margin is bluntly indented in the middle for the articulation with the next segment. The outer lateral margin is slightly convex, the inner nearly straight. Both are thickened to strengthen the bladelike expansion. The distal portions of the lateral margin are distinctly serrate. The rather large triangular process of the inner side of the distal margin is, as in the other eurypterids, set off from the rest of the segment by a straight suture. The eighth (paddle) is a little shorter than the seventh, but markedly more slender; it is long, ovate, with lanceolate distal part. Its inner lateral margin is coarsely and its outer margin finely, serrate. The single perfect paddle of our material carries at its distal end a distinct disklike "terminal palette."

The metastoma is elongate cordate; its greatest width about one third the length from the anterior margin. The width equals three fifths of the length. The posterior extremity is well rounded in some specimens and apparently truncated in others. The "Umschlag" or doublure of the inner face, is distinctly seen in one of the specimens [pl. 77, fig. 1] and the wrinkling caused by the compression of the membrane is visible in the figure. In some specimens [pl. 78, fig. 4] a deep median furrow or cleft extended about one third of its length. The inner face was smooth, the outer sculptured as described below.

The epistoma has not been observed. The endostoma was, however, observed lying under a metastoma and accidentally turned backward [pl. 78, fig. 4]. It closely resembles in form the endostoma of. It is a thin suboval shield with deeply emarginate anterior margin. Its lateral and posterior boundaries are ill denned, as it there


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Author:Hubert Crackanthorpe

Works

 * Wreckage: Seven Studies (London: Heinemann, 1893; New York: Cassell, 1894).
 * Sentimental Studies and a Set of Village Tales (London: Heinemann, 1895; New York: Putnam, 1895).
 * Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment (London & New York: John Lane, 1896; New York: Bruno Chapbooks, 1915).
 * Last Studies (London: Heinemann, 1897).
 * Sentimental Studies and a Set of Village Tales (London: Heinemann, 1895; New York: Putnam, 1895).
 * Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment (London & New York: John Lane, 1896; New York: Bruno Chapbooks, 1915).
 * Last Studies (London: Heinemann, 1897).
 * Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment (London & New York: John Lane, 1896; New York: Bruno Chapbooks, 1915).
 * Last Studies (London: Heinemann, 1897).

Plays

 * The Light Sovereign: A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts (London: Harland, 1917) - co-authored with Henry Harland

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Author:Charles Eliot Norton

Works

 * Considerations on some recent social theories, 1853 external scan
 * Notes of travel and study in Italy, 1860 external scan
 * The soldier of the good cause. 1861 external scan
 * Poetical works of Coleridge, with a memoir, 1871 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
 * Historical studies of church-building in the middle ages: Venice, Siena, Florence, 1880 external scan
 * Orations and addresses of George William Curtis, 1893 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
 * Four American universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, 1895 external scan
 * The heart of oak books vol 1, vol 2,vol 3, vol 4, vol 5, vol 6, vol 7 : Book I. Rhymes, jingles, and fables; Book II. Fables and nursery tales; Book III. Fairy tales, ballads and poems; Book IV. Fairy stories and classic tales of adventure; Books V-VII. Masterpieces of literature.
 * The poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) Published 1897 external scan
 * The poet Gray as a naturalist, 1903 external scan
 * Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, 1904 vol 1, vol 2
 * Reminiscences of Old Cambridge, 1905 external scan
 * The love poems of John Donne, 1905 external scan
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his life, 1907 external scan
 * The story teller, 1910 external scan
 * Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, 1913 vol 1, vol 2

Works of Thomas Carlyle (editor)

 * The correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 (editor), 1883 vol 1, vol 2
 * Early letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1886 vol 1, vol 2
 * Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle, 1887 (translator and editor) external scan
 * Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle, 1887 vol 1, vol 2
 * Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 Published 1888 vol 1, vol 2
 * Two note books of Thomas Carlyle, from 23d March 1822 to 16th May 1832 Published 1898. external scan

The writings of James Russell Lowell (editor)

 * Published 1890. vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5, vol 6,vol 7, vol 8, vol 9, vol 10, vol 11, vol 12
 * Letters, 1894 vol 1 part 1, vol 1 part 2, vol 2 part 1, vol 2 part 2
 * Last poems, 1895 external scan
 * The poems of John Donne, 1895 vol 1, vol 2

Translations

 * The New life of Dante Alighieri, 1867 external scan

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red glare covered the whole southern sky as Ralph reached the outer air.

"Mother is right, I guess," he spoke quickly—"it is certainly in the direction of the old factory."

The spur switch to the factory had been completed for some days. Ralph had that afternoon operated the levers opening the Farrington extension for the first time.

The new lessee of the factory, he understood, was going to use oil for fuel under some of the boilers. Among the twenty-odd cars switched off on the spur that afternoon Ralph had noticed as many as ten tank cars.

As Ralph ran on, he was surprised to note the extent of the glare. It spread from a point quite remote from the factory right up to the factory location.

He heard shouts in the distance, and scattered figures were thronging the landscape from all directions.

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202 A thousand yards ahead was the ravine. This the factory switch spur traversed.

Shooting up from the depths of the ravine for nearly a quarter of a mile were leaping, vivid tongues of flame.

Getting where he could command a view townwards obliquely across the ravine, Ralph realized just what had happened.

Outlined against the black sky there showed the framework of several freight cars. They were simply threads of flame now.

In some way the stationary freights had caught fire. The blaze had communicated to an oil tank. There had been an explosion, scattering the burning oil far and wide.

The cars had been blocked on an incline. Apparently the force of an explosion, or the fire, had dislodged or destroyed the blocking plank. Some of the cars had broken free. Scudding down the ravine, they had lodged cinders and flame in all directions.

Coming to a curve, they had jumped the track. About two hundred feet from the factory they had gone down into a gravel pit, piling on top of each other.

The dry grass and shrubbery were on fire on both sides of the ravine for a full quarter of a mile back towards the town. The house Mrs.

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Rh Davis had lived in was ablaze from cellar to garret.

Suddenly there was an awful roar. It was fortunate that Ralph was no nearer to the center of the explosion than he was.

The tanks that had crashed down into the gravel pit had formed a seething caldron of fire, and had now exploded.

So powerful was the concussion that Ralph was thrown flat. Getting erect again promptly, he saw a great flare of fire leap a hundred feet in the air.

This bore with it blazing planks, fragments of red-hot iron, and dazzling cinders.

They fell all over the landscape. They particularly enveloped the old factory. This, Ralph noticed, took fire instantly in a dozen different places.

"Hello, Fairbanks!" cried a breathless passerby.

"Slavin?" said Ralph.

"Yes, keep on. There's hose and apparatus up at the factory. That's all there is worth saving, now."

"It will never be saved," pronounced Ralph convincedly, but he joined Slavin on a run forward.

They were compelled to make a wide detour

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204 here and there of the ravine windings. Even great trees lining it had caught fire. The smoke was dense, and the burning cinders rained down upon them like hail.

"Hold on," ordered Ralph suddenly, but Slavin, catching sight of men and ladders in the vicinity of the factory, dashed on for the main center of excitement and activity.

Ralph had halted. He stood within about a hundred feet of the old house between Mrs. Davis' former home and the factory.

It was across this stretch, belonging to an old invalid widow, that Farrington had forced his right of way. The roof of the house was ablaze. So was one side of the building. Ralph had been checked by a wailing cry.

"Some one shut in there," he decided. "Even if it is only an animal, I must find out, and try to rescue it."

Ralph ran through the open rear doorway. A hall extended the length of the house. The outside blaze shone brightly into a side room, although it was filled with smoke pouring through a sash half burned away.

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Rh doorway, and she was moaning and crying for help.

"Is that you, David?" she gasped wildly, as her smoke-blurred eyes made out Ralph.

"No, but I am here to help you," answered Ralph in a cheery, encouraging voice. "Don't Worry, ma'am."

Ralph soon extricated the chair. As he ran it and its occupant out into the open air, the front windows blew in from the intense heat, and the flames swept through the house.

Ralph ran the chair to a high point of safety.

"Don't go any further," panted the old woman. "My son David is due home. He will be worried to death. I want to be where I can see and call to him, when he comes."

"Very well," said Ralph, "you are safe here, at least for the present. I will run back and save what I can in the house."

"No, no," demurred the old woman quickly. "There is nothing worth saving. The furniture is old and insured. So is the house. Oh, I am so thankful to you!" she cried fervently.

"That is all right," said Ralph. "I am sorry to see you homeless."

"How did the fire come?" questioned the woman. "From Gasper Farrington's new railroad?"

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40 Finally, however, he had to give way, and, during the last days of November 1506, he reluctantly proceeded to Bologna, where Julius II. had entered with his conquering army.

"One morning Michael Angelo went to hear Mass at San Petronio. The Pope's groom recognised him and led him before Julius, who was at table at the Palace of the Sixteen. The Pope, irritated, said to him: 'It was your duty to come to seek us (at Rome); but you waited for us to find you (at Bologna)!' Michael Angelo threw himself on his knees and in a loud voice begged for pardon, saying that he had not acted through malice but irritation, because he could not bear being driven away, as had been done. The Pope remained seated, with bent head and face flushed with anger, whereupon a bishop, whom Soderini had sent to defend Michael Angelo, attempted to intervene by saying: 'May it please your Holiness to pay no heed to his stupidities: he sinned through ignorance. Apart from their art, painters are all the same.' At this the Pope became furious and cried: 'What you say is an insult, which comes not from us! You are the ignorant one! . . . Away with you and the devil take you!' And as he did not do as he was told, the Pope's servants threw themselves upon him, with blows, and expelled him from the room. Then, the Pope, having spent his anger on the bishop, made Michael Angelo approach and pardoned him."

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 * Female suffrage. A letter from the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. to Samuel Smith, M.P. by William Ewart Gladstone
 * Female suffrage, 1875 by Goldwin Smith
 * Female suffrage, 1875 by Goldwin Smith

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206 "Yes," said Ralph, "some oil cars on the switch spur took fire, and exploded."

"Then he is responsible!" cried the woman eagerly. "And his factory is burning up, isn't it? It's a retribution on him, that's what it is," she declared hoarsely. "He ran his tracks over our land without permission. He spoiled our peaceful home. Won't I get damages from him, as well as my insurance money?"

"I think your chances are very good," answered Ralph.

The old woman looked somewhat comforted. She sat mumbling to herself. Ralph wished to hurry over to the factory. He offered to wheel her to a shelter nearer the town, but she insisted she must wait in sight of the house until her son arrived.

Ralph did not like to leave her alone. The grass might catch fire and the flames spread, even to the place where they were now. He stood surveying the fire interestedly, when his companion uttered a sudden scream.

"Oh, my! oh, my!" she wailed, wringing her hands. "How could I forget!"

Ralph pressed closer to her side.

"Is something distressing you?" he asked quickly.

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Rh house all on fire? No, there may be time yet. Boy, will you—will you do something for me?"

"Surely, if I can."

"In the house—something I must save."

"What is it? In what part of the house?"

"Not mine. It is a sacred trust. It is something I promised faithfully to look after. Oh, dear! dear! if it should be burned up!"

"Try and be calm, and tell me about it," advised Ralph.

"It is upstairs—in the rear garret room."

Ralph looked up rather hopelessly at the little window fully twenty feet from the ground.

"How do the stairs run?" he asked.

"Only from the front. You can't go that way, though," panted the woman. "It's all ablaze. But there is a ladder."

"Where—quick."

"Behind that old grape trellis."

"How long is it?" asked Ralph.

"It reaches the roof. My son used it in shingling. Take a hatchet or a club with you. The window is nailed down on the inside, very tightly. You will have to smash the window in. Is it too late?"

"Not at all," declared Ralph briskly.

"The roof is all on fire!"

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208 "Never mind that, only be quick and tell me: what is it you want me to get?"

"There's only one thing in the room. An old trunk."

"An old trunk?" repeated Ralph rapidly.

"It's all tied up with rope. Smash it open, too. Inside is a tin case, a small flat tin case. That's what I want. Oh! you will get it, won't you?" pleaded the old woman, in a fever of suspense and excitement.

"I shall certainly try," declared Ralph.

"Don't risk your precious life by any delay, dear, dear boy!" cried the old woman hysterically. "I believe I should die of worry if that box was burned up. I promised so sincerely to take care of it. What would Mrs. Davis say if it was lost!"

"Who?" cried Ralph sharply, with a great start.

"Mrs. Davis."

"The woman who lived next door?"

"Yes, yes. She left it with me, about a month ago. She was afraid to keep it with herself. I promised"

But Ralph was listening no longer. A great conviction filled his mind that at this critical moment, amid fire and peril, a crisis in his life faced him.

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 * (Cotton goods and yarn)

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Rh powerful will had again changed. There was no longer any question of a mausoleum but of a colossal bronze statue which he proposed to raise at Bologna. In vain did Michael Angelo protest "that he knew nothing about the casting of bronze." He had to set to work to learn, with the result that his life became a torment. He lived in a wretched room, with a single bed, in which he slept with his two Florentine assistants, Lapo and Lodovico, and with his metal-founder, Bernardino. Fifteen months passed full of all sorts of troubles. He quarrelled with Lapo and Lodovico, who robbed him.

"This scamp Lapo," he wrote to his father, "gave every one to understand that he and Lodovico did all the work, or at least that they worked in collaboration with me. He could not understand that he was not the master until I turned him out; then, for the first time, did he see that he was in my employment. I drove him forth as I would a brute."

Lapo and Lodovico complained noisily, and, in addition to spreading calumnies against Michael Angelo in Florence, succeeded in extorting money from his father under the pretext that he had robbed them.

The incapacity of the founder next became apparent.

"I would have believed that Maestro Bernardino was capable of casting even without fire, so great was my faith in him."

In June 1507 the casting of the statue failed; the figure was successful only as far as the waist. Everything had to be recommenced. Michael Angelo was occupied with the work until February 1508 and nearly ruined his health over it.

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ran towards the grape trellis. He soon found the ladder the old woman had mentioned.

It was long and quite heavy, but seizing one end he dragged it towards the burning building. Soon he had it set in place and balanced. He had guessed at the proper slant correctly. Its top just rested on the edge of the attic window outside the sill.

"No time to lose," declared Ralph. "Where will I find a hatchet?" he called to the old woman.

"In the wood shed—right near the door, on a chopping block," she directed, watching his every movement in a fever of suspense.

Ralph darted into the wood shed. He came out, hatchet in hand, and sprang instantly onto the ladder.

The building was doomed, he saw that. Its entire front half was in flame. As he got a few feet from the ground a great whirlwind of smoke and sparks enveloped him. Rh

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210 "Why," exclaimed Ralph, as he reached the top of the ladder, "the window is all right."

He did not need to use the hatchet. Contrary to the old woman's positive statement, Ralph found the sash raised an inch or two. It pushed up smoothly. He felt obtruding nails on the inside, which appeared to have been forced out of place.

Climbing through the window, Ralph was nearly choked with the dense smoke filling the room. The window vent somewhat cleared the air, but he could not see an inch before his face.

"I can't stand much of this," he reflected, and then held his breath closely.

Ralph had to grope with hands and feet. He lined one side wall of the apartment, ran to the window for a supply of fresh air, and resumed his difficult quest.

"No luck so far," he panted. "The room seems entirely empty. There is not even a carpet on the floor."

Suddenly, a cracking sound and then a slight crash warned him to look out for danger.

A door leading into the front attic just then burned free of its hinges. It fell inside the apartment Ralph was in.

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Rh "I see it—the trunk!" said Ralph, and sprang to a corner where a box-like outline showed.

Again the old woman's statements were at fault. The trunk was perfectly easy of access, and Ralph did not have to use the hatchet at all.

Ropes that at one time possibly enclosed the trunk lay at one side, cut in two. The broken lock of the trunk lay on the floor. Ralph threw up the cover.

Inside was a mass of cotton batting. He threw this out on the floor. Then some old newspapers followed. Beneath these lay a little flat tin box.

"I have it," said Ralph with satisfaction, grasping the object of the old woman's anxiety.

It was high time to make an exit. Some sparks fell on the cotton. It blazed up into his face and singed his hair. Ralph found himself nearly overcome by the smoke. He fairly staggered to the window, and spluttering and scorched, almost slid the length of the ladder.

Reaching the ground the young leverman stood stationary for a moment. He dug the cinders out of his eyes, and took a good long refreshing breath of the pure air.

A call roused him to new action. The old woman was shouting at him and waving her hand eagerly.

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212 She was not alone now. A pale-faced young man of about thirty stood by her side. Ralph presumed that this was her son, David, to whom she had so frequently referred.

"Did you get it—did you get it?" she called out anxiously, as Ralph ran up to the invalid chair.

"Yes, ma'am," responded Ralph, handing over the box.

"Oh, dear! Oh, how shall I ever thank you? David, he is a brave, noble boy!" and hugging the box to her breast, the old woman wept hysterically.

"You saved my mother's life," spoke the young man, placing a hand that trembled on Ralph's shoulder.

"I am glad if that is so," said Ralph.

"David! David! David!"

Just here the old woman interrupted with startling suddenness. Ralph turned quickly toward her in amazement. Her son ran to her side, very much alarmed. She had shouted out his name in such a lost, despairing tone that both her auditors were thrilled.

"Mother—what is it?" cried the young man.

The old woman waved the tin box that Ralph had just given her.

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Rh paper, and sealed," she said. "And look now, David—it is empty!"

"Was there something in it?" questioned Ralph, his spirits sinking to zero.

All along he had entertained some hopeful ideas regarding that little tin box, knowing that it had been the property of the mysterious Mrs. Davis.

"Why, surely," said the old woman, weeping bitterly and wringing her hands. "Mrs. Davis put some folded papers in it. I saw her do it. She said they were very valuable. She was afraid she would lose them, or be robbed. She said she feared wicked enemies."

"When was that?" asked Ralph.

"About a month ago. She wrapped up, tied, and sealed the box. She asked me where she could hide it for a time. I told her about the old trunk. It was empty, except for some cotton and newspapers. I told her to nail down the window, put the box in the trunk, tie up the trunk, and lock the attic door. She did all that. She made me promise solemnly to think first of that box if anything happened. And now someone has stolen the papers! I have been faithless to my trust! Poor Mrs. Davis said her very life depended on those papers. Oh, David! David! I shall die of shame and grief, I know I shall!"

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214 "You did your best, you couldn't help it," said her son soothingly.

"No, some thief has visited your attic," decleared Ralph.

"But no one except Mrs. Davis and myself knew that the box was there," suggested the weeping woman.

"Someone surely found out," said Ralph. "I found the window forced up and the trunk lock broken."

"Mother, you really must not take on so," spoke the young man in a worried tone. "You are shaking all over. I must get you to some shelter."

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Works

 * Michelangelo und das Ende der Renaissance, 1902 (German)

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young switch-tower man had lost all interest in the fire now. He stood thinking deeply, and felt quite depressed.

He was very certain that the papers Mrs. Davis had placed in the tin box in some way referred to her interest in the twenty thousand dollars' worth of railroad bonds, to which she had so frequently and significantly alluded.

She had told his mother that she was going to get something from a friend to show her and Ralph. Was it not these very same papers?

It was very possible, Ralph reflected further, that in some way Mrs. Davis' kidnappers had got a clew to the hiding place of these self-same documents.

"One word, please," spoke up Ralph, as the young man started to wheel his mother away from the scene of the fire. "Someone certainly forced a way to your attic and rifled that trunk."

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216 "Have you had any strange visitors?" inquired Ralph.

"No—no one hardly ever comes here, except neighbors. Of course there have been a lot of workmen building the switch. But they were harmless, ignorant persons. Got a drink at the well, and went about their business."

"You have noticed no suspicious characters hanging about?" pressed Ralph.

"Oh, no."

"By the way, mother," interposed the young man, "you forgot about the two young fellows who came here day before yesterday—no, the day before that—Tuesday."

"Oh, they were the insurance men."

"What insurance men?" asked Ralph.

"They said they were inspectors. They said they were hired by the insurance companies to look over risks. They asked me if we had any gasoline. I said no. Then they asked if I had any inflammable stuff stored in the attic. They wanted to go up and see, but I told them the attic was empty."

"They wanted to inspect the attic, did they?" murmured Ralph thoughtfully.

"Yes. Then they said they would have to look over the chimneys and roof, to be sure everything was all right."

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Rh "Did they do so?"

"I told them where the ladder was. Of course, confined helpless to my invalid chair, I couldn't go out with them. They came back inside in about ten minutes, and said they had found everything in shipshape order."

"Those are the persons who robbed the trunk," declared Ralph in a tone of conviction.

"Do you think so?" cried the old woman. "Do you know them?"

"I don't know—yet. Do you remember how they were dressed?"

"They were well-dressed, I remember that."

"Young men, I believe you said?"

"Yes, boys, almost—a little older than you. One wore a pearl-gray derby hat. The other wore a kind of automobile cap."

"Thank you," said Ralph, showing the value of this information in manner and face.

"Do you know them?" inquired the old woman eagerly.

"I think I do," said Ralph.

"Can you find them?"

"They will not be hard to locate," answered Ralph definitely. "Do not worry, ma'am. You have given me a very clever clew as to the robbers. I think I know who has got the papers that were in that little tin box."

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218 "Oh, be sure to let me know if you get back those papers, won't you?" pressed the old woman anxiously.

"I certainly shall," promised Ralph.

He bade mother and son good-bye. Then Ralph proceeded in the direction of the old Farrington factory.

Great crowds lined the ravine and surrounded the site of the factory. This had been burned to the ground. The ravine in places was still a nest of fire, but the flames were confined there. The fires in the grass and in the shrubbery had been beaten out.

Ralph passed from crowd to crowd, gleaminggleaning (?) [sic] many a bit of exciting gossip.

He heard a local insurance agent say that the fire had done damage to the extent of a hundred thousand dollars. The factory represented the bulk of the loss.

"And no insurance, did you say?" someone asked the agent.

"Not on the building. The insurance expired there only last week."

Ralph finally found the person he was in search of—Slavin. He had made up his mind that something must be done promptly in regard to the documents stolen from Mrs. Davis' tin box.

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Rh other oyly substances, and that they involve, and as it were sheath the volatile salts of the venomous liquor, and prevent their shooting out into those chrystallin spicula which cause the deadly mischief. In the next chapter he says, the oleum scorpionum, or the oyl wherein scorpions have been infus'd, is a present remedy for the sting of this creature, as the axungia viperina for the viper. He says the viperine venom is the quintessence or most active part of those animal juices, with which the viper is nourish'd, and so of the scorpion and other poisonous animals: the like we may suppofe of the matter of the gout, being the quintessence or most active part of the rich blood of arthritics unbroke by labor.

I have known several instances of people obnoxious to the gout, that have been seiz'd with a sudden and most violent inflammation in the face, a small tumor arising like a plague sore immensely fiery, which breaks and runs with a scalding water or sanies, and then heals up. No doubt but this happily discharges a fitt of the gout, and sufficiently shows the poysonous nature of that humour which causes it. So that Lucian not improperly compares the pain of the gout to the gnawings of the hell-hound Cerberus, to the poysonous bite of Echidna a hell-snake, and


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Rh Ike Slump and Mort Bemis tallied precisely to the old woman's description of her "insurance inspectors" visitors.

Their call at the old house had evidently been made on the afternoon of the day when Slump and Bemis had decoyed Ralph to the Stiggs cottage.

Ralph reasoned that if they had got the documents in question, they had them now, for their arrest had followed within a few hours of their rifling of the trunk.

"I want you to do something for me, Slavin, if you will," said Ralph, leading his companion out of hearing of the crowd.

"All right," was the prompt response.

"Something urgent and important."

"Fire away—I'm yours truly."

"Can you get word for me to my friend, Van Sherwin?"

"Sure."

"To-night?"

"At any and all times. We arranged that with the road detective."

"Very well," said Ralph. "I want you to deliver a note to Van. It will take some time to write it, so you will have to come up to the house with me, and wait till I get it ready."

They proceeded forthwith in the direction of

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220 the Fairbanks homestead. Ralph invited his companion to stay to supper.

"Say," observed Slavin, as they had proceeded on their way some distance and he took a last backward glance at the dying flames—"say, Ralph Fairbanks, I wonder if it looks to you—that fire I mean—like it does to me?"

"How do you mean, Slavin?" questioned Ralph.

"That some of old Gasper Farrington's chickens are coming home to roost!"

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