than one from the tusks of a boar, as the old rhyme If thou be hurt with hart, it brings thee to thy bier; needst not fear. but honourable, among hostile tribes, to commit depredations on one another; and these habits of the age were perhaps strengthened in this district, by the circumstances which have been mentioned. It bordered on a country, the inhabitants of which, At all times, however, the task was dangerous, while they were richer, were less warlike than and to be adventured upon wisely and warily, they, and widely differenced by language and maneither by getting behind the stag while he was ners."-Graham's Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire. Edin. 1806, 97. gazing on the hounds, or by watching an opportu nity to gallop roundly in upon him, and kill him with the sword. See many directions to this pur-ber, that the scene of this poem is laid in a time, pose in the Booke of Hunting, chap. 41. Wilson the historian has recorded a providential escape which befel him in this hazardous sport, while a youth and follower of the earl of Essex. The reader will therefore be pleased to remem When tooming faulds, or sweeping of a glen, 6. A gray-haired sire, whose eye intent "The second sight is a singular faculty, of seeing an otherwise invisible object, without any previous means used by the person that used it, for that end; the vision makes such a lively impres sion upon the seers, that they neither see, nor think of any thing else, except the vision, as long as it continues; and then they appear pensive or jovial, according to the object which was represented to them. "Sir Peter Lee, of Lime, in Cheshire, invited my lord one summer, to hunt the stagg. And hav-lieve facts inconsistent with the general laws of ing a great stagg in chase, and many gentlemen in nature, enough might be produced in favour of the the pursuit, the stagg took soyle. And divers, existence of the second sight. It is called in Gaelic whereof I was one, alighted, and stood with swords Taishitaraugh, from Taish, and unreal or shadrawne, to have a cut at him, at his coming out of dowy appearance; and those possessed of the faculthe water. The staggs there being wonderfully ty are called Taishatrin, which may be aptly fierce and dangerous, made us youths more eager translated visionaries. Martin, a steady believer to be at him. But he escaped us all; and it was in the second sight, gives the following account my misfortune to be hindered of my coming nere of it: him, the way being slipperie, by a fall; which gave occasion to some, who did not know mee, to speak as if I had falne for feare. Which being told me, I left the stagg, and followed the gentleman who [first] spake it. But I found him of that cold temper, that it seems his words made an escape from him; as by his denial and repentance it appeared. But this made mee more violent in the pursuit of the stagg, to recover my reputation. And I happened to be the only horseman in when the doggs sett him up at bay; and approaching near him on horsebacke, he broke through the dogs and ran at mee, and tore my horse's side with his hornes, close by my thigh. Then I quitted my horse, and grew more cunning, (for the doggs had sette him up againe,) stealing behind him with my sword, and cut his ham-strings; and then got upon his back, and cut his throate; which, as I was doing, the company came in, and blamed my rashness for running such a hazard.”—Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, ii, 464. 4. And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice.-P. 126. Until the present road was made through the romantic pass which I have presumptuously attempted to describe in the preceding stanzas, there was no mode of issuing out of the defile, called the Trosachs, excepting by a sort of ladder, composed of the branches and roots of the trees. 5. To meet with highland plunderers here Were worse than loss of steed or deer.-P. 126. The clans who inhabited the romantic regions in the neighbourhood of Loch-Katrine, were, even until a late period, much addicted to predatory excursions upon their lowland neighbours. "In former times, those parts of this district, which are situated beyond the Grampian range, were rendered almost inaccessible by strong barriers of rocks, and mountains, and lakes. It was a border country, and though on the very verge of the low country, it was almost totally sequestered from the world, and, as it were, insulated with respect to society. Tis well known, that, in the highlands, it was, in former times, accounted not only lawful, "At the sight of a vision, the eyelids of the person are erected, and the eyes continue staring until the object vanish. This is obvious to others who are by, when the persons happen to see a vision, and occurred more than once to my own observation, and to others that were with me. "There is one in Skie, of whom his acquaintance observed, that when he sees a vision, the inner part of his eyelids turns so far upwards, that after the object disappears, he must draw them down with his fingers, and sometimes employ others to draw them down, which he finds to be the much easier way. I "This faculty of the second sight does not lineally descend in a family, as some imagine, for know several parents who are endowed with it, but their children not, and vice versa; neither is it acquired by any previous compact. And, after a strict inquiry, I could never learn that this faculty was communicable any way whatsoever. "The seer knows neither the object, time, nor place of a vision, before it appears; and the same object is often seen by different persons, living at a considerable distance from one another. The true way of judging as to the time and circumstance of an object, is by observation; for several persons of judgment, without this faculty, are more capable to judge of the design of a vision, than a novice that is a seer. If an object appear in the day or night, it will come to pass sooner or later accordingly. "If an object is seen early in the morning (which is not frequent) it will be accomplished in a few hours afterwards. If at noon, it will commonly be accomplished that very day. If in the evening, perhaps that night; if after candles be lighted, it will be accomplished that night: the later always in accomplishment, by weeks, months, and some times years, according to the time of night the vision is seen. "When a shroud is perceived about one, it is a sure prognostic of death: the time is judged according to the height of it about the person; for if it is seen above the middle, death is not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some months longer; and as it is frequently seen to as cend higher towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shown me, when the persons of whom the observations were then made, enjoyed perfect health. with them; and after such visions the seers come in sweating, and described the people that appear ed: if there be any of their acquaintance among 'em, they give an account of their names, as also of the bearers, but they know nothing concerning the corpse. All those who have the second sight do not always see these visions at once, though they be together at the time. But if one who has this faculty designedly touch his fellow-seer at the instant of a vision's appearing, then the second sees it as well as the first: and this is sometimes discerned by those that are near them on such occasions."-Martin's Description of the Western Islands, 1716, 8vo. p. 300, et seq. "One instance was lately foretold by a seer that was a novice, concerning the death of one of my To those particulars, innumerable examples acquaintance; this was communicated to a few only, might be added, all attested by grave and credible and with great confidence: I being one of the num authors. But, in despite of evidence, which neither ber, did not in the least regard it, until the death Bacon, Boyle, nor Johnson were able to resist, the of the person, about the time foretold, did confirm Taisch, with all its visionary properties, seems to me of the certainty of the prediction. The novice be now universally abandoned to the use of poetry. mentioned above is now a skilful seer, as appears from many late instances: he lives in the parish of St. Mary's, the most northern in Skie. "If a woman is seen standing at a man's left hand, it is a presage that she will be his wife, whether they be married to others, or unmarried, at the time of the apparition. "If two or three woman are seen at once near a man's left hand, she that is next him will undoubtedly be his wife first, and so on, whether all three, or the man, be single or married at the time of the vision or not: of which there are several late instances among those of my acquaintance. It is an ordinary thing for them to see a man that is to come to the house shortly after: and if he is not of the seer's acquaintance, yet he gives such a lively description of his stature, complexion, habit, &c. that upon his arrival he answers the character given him in all respects. "If the person so appearing be one of the seer's acquaintance, he will tell his name, as well as other particulars; and he can tell by his countenance whether he comes in a good or bad humour. The exquisitely beautiful poem of Lochiel will at Some chief had framed a rustic bower.-P. 128. ally exposed to peril, had usually, in the most refor the hour of necessity, which, as circumstances tired spot of their domains, some place of retreat would admit, was a tower, a cavern, or a rustic hut, in a strong and secluded situation. One of Edward, in his perilous wanderings after the batthese last gave refuge to the unfortunate Charles tle of Culloden. and rocky mountain, called Letternilichk, still a "It was situated in the face of a very rough, high, part of Benalder, full of great stones and crevices, tation called the Cage, in the face of that mountain, and some scattered wood interspersed. The habiwas within a small thick bush of wood. There were first some rows of trees laid down, in order to level a floor for a habitation; and, as the place was steep, this raised the lower side to an equal "I have been seen thus myself by seers of both height with the other; and these trees, in the way sexes, at some hundred miles distance: some that of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and saw me in this manner, had never seen me per- gravel. There were between the trees, growsonally, and it happened according to their visions, fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, were ining naturally on their own roots, some stakes without any previous design of mine to go to those places, my coming there being purely accidental. twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round terwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch "It is ordinary with them to see houses, gar- or rather oval shape; and the whole thatched and dens, and trees, in places void of all three; and this covered over with fog. The whole fabric hang, as in progress of time uses to be accomplished: as at it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the Magshot, in the Isle of Skie, where there were but one end, all along the roof, to the other, and which a few sorry cow-houses, thatched with straw, yet, in a very few years after, the vision, which appear gave it the name of a Cage; and by chance there ed often, was accomplished by the building of se-happened to be two stones at a small distance from veral good houses on the very spot represented by the seers, and by the planting of orchards there. "To see a spark of fire fall upon one's arm or breast, is a forerunner of a dead child to be seen in the arms of those persons, of which there are several fresh instances. "To see a seat empty at the time of one's sitting in it, is a presage of that person's death soon after. "When a novice, or one that has lately obtained the second-sight, sees a vision in the night time, without doors, and comes near a fire, he presently falls into a swoon. "Some find themselves as it were in a crowd of people, having a corpse which they carry along bling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was one another, in the side next the precipice, resemthe fall of the rock, which was so much of the same placed. The smoke had its vent out here, all along colour, that one could discover no difference in the clearest day."-Home's History of the Rebellion,` Lond. 1802, 4to. p. 381. 8. My sire's tall form might grace the part Of Ferragus, or Ascabart.-P. 128. These two sons of Anak flourished in romantic fable. The first is well known to the admirers of Ariosto, by the name of Ferrau. He was an antago nist of Orlando, and was at length slain by him in single combat. There is a romance in the Auchin leck MS., in which Ferragus is thus described: "On a day come tiding No greued him, aplight. He hadde twenti men strengthe, Thilke painim hede.† And fiften in brede. His nose was a fot and more; He that it seighe it sede. And was swart as any piche, Romance of Charlemagne, i, 461, 484.-Auchin- Ascapart, or Ascabart, makes a very material figure in the history of Bevis of Hampton, by whom he was conquered. His effigies may be seen guarding one side of a gate at Southampton, while the other is occupied by sir Bevis himself. The dimensions of Ascabart were little inferior to those of Ferragus, if the following description be correct "They metten with a geaunt, His berd was bot gret and rowe;++ Beues hadde of him wonder gret, For to bring this quene ayen, And that schel on us be sene." need of. 10. And still a harp unseen Filled up the symphony between.-P. 129. "They (meaning the highlanders) delight much Found, proved. + Had. + Measured. Breadth. in musicke, but chiefly in harps and clairschoes of their own fashion. The strings of the clairschoes are made of brasse-wire, and the strings of the harps of sinews, which strings they strike either with their nayles, growing long, or else with an instrument appointed for that use. They take great pleasure to decke their harps and clairschoes with silver and precious stones; the poore ones that cannot attayne hereunto, decke them with christall. They sing verses, prettily compound, contayning (for the most part) prayses of valiant men. There is not almost any other argument, whereof their rhymes intreat. They speak the ancient French language, altered a little."-" The harp and clairschoes are now only heard of in the highlands in ancient song. At what period these instruments ceased to be used, is not on record; and tradition is silent on this head. But, as Irish harpers occasionally visited the highlands and western isles till lately, the harp might have been extant so late as the middle of the present century. Thus far we know, that from remote times down to the present, harpers were received as welcome and so late as the latter end of the sixteenth cenguests, particularly in the highlands of Scotland: was in common use among the natives of the westtury, as appears by the above quotation, the harp ern isles. How it happened that the noisy ard inharmonious bagpipe banished the soft and expressive harp, we cannot say; but certain it is, that he bagpipe is now the only instrument that obtains universally in the highland districts.”— Campbell's Journey through North Britain, Lond. 1808, 4to. i, 175. Mr. Gunn, of Edinburgh, has lately published a curious essay upon the harp and harp music of the highlands of Scotland. That the instrument was once in common use there, is most certain. Cleland numbers an acquaintance with it among the few accomplishments which his satire allows to the highlanders: In nothing they're accounted sharp, NOTES TO CANTO II. 1. Morn's genial influence roused a minstrel gray.-P. 130. That highland chieftains, to a late period, retained in their service the bard, as a family officer, admits of very easy proof. The author of the letters from Scotland, an officer of engineers, quartered at Inverness about 1720, who certainly cannot be deemed a favourable witness, gives the following account of the office, and of a bard, whom he heard exercise his talent of recitation: "The bard skilled in the genealogy of all the highland families, sometimes preceptor to the young laird, celebrates in Irish verse the original of the tribe, the famous warlike actions of the successive heads, and sings his own lyricks as an opiate to the chief, when indisposed for sleep; but poets are not equally esteemed and honoured in all countries. I happened to be a witness of the dishonour done to the muse, at the house of one of the chiefs, where two of these bards were set at a good distance, at the lower end of a long table, with a parcel of highlanders of no extraordi. tion! Were. Black. ** Fully. ++Rough. #His.nary appearance, over a cup of ale. Poor inspira Give. I The stem of a little oak tree. 11 He hight, was called. $599 Greater, taller. * Vide "Certayne Matters concerning the Realme o Scotland, &e. as they were Anno Domini 1597. Lol. 1603," 4to "They were not asked to drink a glass of wine et our table, though the whole company consisted only of the great man, one of his near relations, and myself. leaue the court, and goe to Elphegus, surnamed the Bauld, then bishop of Winchester, who was his cozen. Which his enemies understanding, they layd wayte for him in the way, and hauing thrown "After some little time, the chief ordered one him off his horse, beate him, and dragged him of them to sing me a highland song. The bard in the durt in the most miserable manner, meanreadily obeyed, and with a hoarse voice, and in a ing to haue slaine him, had not a companie of tune of few various notes, began, as I was told, mastiue dogges, that came unlookt uppon them, one of his own lyricks; and when he had proceeded defended and redeemed him from their crueltie. to the fourth or fifth stanza, I perceived, by the When with sorrow he was ashamed to see dogges vames of several persons, glens, and mountains, more humane than they. And giuing thankes to which I had known or heard of before, that it was Almightie God, he sensibly againe perceaued that an account of some clan battle. But in his going the tunes of his violl had giuen him a warning of on, the chief (who piques himself upon his school- future accidents." Flower of the Lives of the most learning) at some particular passage, bid him cease, renowned Saincts of England, Scotland, and Ireand cryed out, 'There's nothing like that in Vir-land, by the R. Father Hierome Porter. Doway, gil or Homer.' I bowed, and told him I believed so. This you may believe was very edifying and delightful."-Letters from Scotland, ii, 167. 2.The Græme.-P. 130. 1632, 4to. tome i, p. 438. The same supernatural circumstance is alluded to by the anonymous author of "Grim, the Collies of Croydon." 16. -[Dunstan's harp sounds on the wall.] "Forest. Hark, hark, my lords, the holy abbot's harp Sounds by itself so hanging on the wall! "Dunstan. Unhallowed man, that scorn'st the sacred rede, Hark, how the testimony of my truth Sounds heavenly music with an angel's hand, And prove thy active boast of no effect." To testify Dunstan's integrity, 4. Ere Douglasses, to ruin driven, The ancient and powerful family of Graham, (which, for metrical reasons, is here spelt after the Scottish pronunciation,) held extensive possessions in the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling. Few families can boast of more historical renown, having claim to three of the most remarkable characters in the Scottish annals. Sir John the Græme, the faithful and undaunted partaker of the labours and patriotic warfare of Wallace, fell in the unWere exiled from their native heaven.-P. 131. fortunate field of Falkirk, in 1298. The celebrated marquis of Montrose, in whom De Retz saw real- The downfall of the Douglasses of the house of ized his abstract idea of the heroes of antiquity, Angus, during the reign of James V, is the event was the second of these worthies. And, notwith-alluded to in the text. The earl of Angus, it will standing the severity of his temper, and the rigour be remembered, had married the queen dowager, with which he executed the oppressive mandates and availed himself of the right which he thus acof the princes whom he served, I do not hesitate quired, as well as of his extensive power, to retain to name as the third, John Grahame, of Claver- the king in a sort of tutelage, which approached house, viscount of Dundee, whose heroic death in the arms of victory, may be allowed to cancel the memory of his cruelty to the non-conformists, during the reigns of Charles II, and James II. very near to captivity. Several open attempts were made to rescue James from this thraldom, with which he was well known to be deeply disgusted; but the valour of the Douglasses, and their allies, gave them the victory in every conflict. At length, 3. This harp, which erst saint Modan swayed.-P. 131. the king, while residing at Falkland, contrived to I am not prepared to show that saint Modan was escape by night out of his own court and palace, a performer on the harp. It was, however, no un- and rode full speed to Stirling castle, where the saintly accomplishment; for saint Dunstan cer- governor, who was of the opposite faction, joyfully tainly did play upon that instrument, which, re-received him. Being thus at liberty, James speedily taining, as was natural, a portion of the sanctity summoned around him such peers as he knew to attached to its master's character, announced fu- be most inimical to the domination of Angus, and ture events by its spontaneous sound. "But labour- laid his complaint before them, says Pitscottie, ing once in these mechanic arts for a devoute ma-" with great lamentations; showing to them how trone that had sett him on work, his violl, that he was holden in subjection, thir years bygone, hung by him on the wall, of its own accord, with- by the earl of Angus, and his kin and friends, who out anie man's helpe, distinctly sounded this an- oppressed the whole country, and spoiled it, under thime: Gaudent in cœlis animæ sanctorum qui the pretence of justice and his authority; and had Christi vestigia sunt secuti; et quia pro eius amore slain many of his lieges, kinsmen, and friends, sanguinem suum fuderunt, ideo cum Christo gau- because they would have had it mended at their dent æternum. Whereat all the companie being hands, and put him at liberty, as he ought to have much astonished, turned their eyes from behould- been, at the counsel of his whole lords, and not ing him working, to looke on that strange acci- have been subjected and corrected with no pardent ""Not long after, manie of the court ticular men, by the rest of his nobles: Therefore, that hitherunto had born a kind of fayned friend- said he, I desire, my lords, that I may be satisfied ship towards him, began now greatly to envie at of the said earl, his kin, and friends; for I avow, his progress and rising in goodness, using manie that Scotland shall not hold us both, while (i. e. crooked, backbiting meanes to diffame his vertues till) I be revenged on him and his. with the black maskes of hypocrisie. And the better to authorise their calumnie, they brought in this that happened in the violl, affirming it to have been done by art magick. What more? this wicked rumour encreased dayly, till the king and others of the nobilitie taking hould thereof, Dunstan grew odious in their sight. Therefore he resolued to "The lords hearing the king's complaint and lamentation, and also the great rage, fury, and malice, that he bore toward the earl of Angus, his kin and friends, they concluded all, and thought it best that he should be summoned to underly the law; if he fand not caution, nor yet compear himself, that he should be put to the horn, with all 7. Maronnan's cell.-P. 131. his kin and friends, so many as were contained in he repaired and established the shattered estate the letters. And further, the lords ordained, by of Angus and Morton.-History of the House of advice of his majesty, that his brother and friends Douglas. Edinburgh, 1743, vol. ii, p. 160. should be summoned to find caution to underly the law within a certain day, or else be put to the horn. The parish of Kilmarnock, at the eastern exBut the earl appeared not, nor none for him; and tremity of Loch-Lomond, derives its name from a so he was put to the horn, with all his kin and cell or chapel, dedicated to saint Maronoch, or friends: so many as were contained in the summons, Marnoch, or Maronnan, about whose sanctity very that compeared not, were banished, and holden little is now remembered. There is a fountain detraitors to the king."-Lindsay of Pitscottie's His-voted to him in the same parish; but its virtues, tory of Scotland. Edinburgh, fol. p. 142. like the merits of its patron, have fallen into oblivion. 8. Bracklinn's thundering wave.-P. 132. This is a beautiful cascade made at a place called the Bridge of Bracklinn, by a mountain stream called the Keltie, about a mile from the village of Callender, in Menteith. Above a chasm where the brook precipitates itself from a height of at least fifty feet, there is thrown, for the convenience of the neighbourhood, a rustic foot bridge, of about three feet in breadth, and without ledges, which is scarcely to be crossed by a stranger without awe and apprehension. 9. For Tineman forged by fairy lore.-P. 132. 5. In Holy-Rood a knight he slew.-P. 131. This was by no means an uncommon occurrence in the court of Scotland; nay, the presence of the Sovereign himself scarcely restrained the ferocious and inveterate feuds which were the perpetual source of bloodshed among the Scottish nobility. The following instance of the murder of sir George Stuart of Ochiltree, called The Bloody, by the celebrated Francis, earl of Bothwell, may be produced among many; but, as the offence given in the royal court will hardly bear a vernacular translation, I shall leave the story in Johnstone's Latin, referring for farther particulars to the naked simplicity of Birrell's Diary, 30th July, 1588. "Mors improbi hominis non tam ipsa immeri- Archibald, the third earl of Douglas, was so unfortunate in all his enterprizes, that he acquired ta, quam pessimo exemplo in publicam fœdê per- the epithet of TINEMAN, because he tined, or lost, petua. Gulielmus Stuartus Alkiltrius, Arani fra- his followers in every battle which he fought. He ter, naturâ ac moribus, cujus sæpius memini, vulgo propter sitem sanguinis sanguinarius dictus, in the bloody battle of Homildon-hill, near Woolwas vanquished, as every reader must remember, à Bothvelio, in Sanctæ Crucis Regià, exardescente, irâ mendacii probo lacessitus, obscænum osculum er, where he himself lost an eye, and was made liberius retorquebat; Bothvelius hanc contumeli- prisoner by Hotspur. He was no less unfortunate am tacitus tulit, sed ingentum irarum molem animo at the battle of Shrewsbury. He was so unsuccesswhen allied with Percy, being wounded and taken concepit. Utrinque postridie Edinburgi conven- ful in an attempt to besiege Roxburgh Castle, that tum, totidem numero comitibus armatus, præsidii it was called the Foul Raid, or disgraceful expecausa, et acriter pugnatum est; cæteris amicis et dition. His ill fortune left him indeed at the batclientibus metu torpentibus, aut vi absterritis, ip- tle of Beauge, in France; but it was only to return se Stuartus fortissimè dimicat, tandem excusso with double emphasis at the subsequent action of gladio à Bothvelie, Scythicâ feritate transfoditur, Vernoil, the last and most unlucky of his encounsine cujusquam misericordiâ; habuit itaque quem ters, in which he fell, with the flower of the Scotdebuit exitum. Dignus erat Stuartus qui patere- tish chivalry, then serving as auxiliaries in France, tur; Bothvelius qui faceret. Vulgus sanguinem and about two thousand common soldiers, A. D. sanguine prædicabit, et horum cruore innocuorum 1424. manibus egregiè parentatum."-JOHNSTONI Historia Rerum Britannicarum, ab anno 1572, ad annum 1628. Amstelodami, 1655, fol. p. 135. 10. Did, self-unscabbarded, fore-show The footsteps of a secret foe.-P. 132. The ancient warriors, whose hope and confidence 6. The Douglas, like a stricken deer, rested chiefly in their blades, were accustomed to Disowned by every noble peer.-P. 131. deduce omens from them, especially from such The exiled state of this powerful race is not ex- as were supposed to have been fabricated by enaggerated in this and subsequent passages. The chanted skill, of which we have various instances hatred of James against the race of Douglas was in the romances and legends of the time. The so inveterate, that, numerous as their allies were, wonderful sword Skofnung, wielded by the celeand disregarded as the regal authority had usually brated Hrolf Kraka, was of this description. It was been in similar cases, their nearest friends, even deposited in the tomb of the monarch at his death, in the most remote parts of Scotland, durst not en- and taken from thence by Skeggo, a celebrated pitertain them, unless under the strictest and closest rate, who bestowed it upon his son-in-law, Kordisguise. James Douglas, son of the banished earl mak, with the following curious directions; "The of Angus, afterwards well known by the title of manner of using it will appear strange to you. A carl of Morton, lurked, during the exile of his small bag is attached to it, which take heed not family, in the north of Scotland, under the assumed to violate. Let not the rays of the sun touch the name of James Innes, otherwise James the Grieve, upper part of the handle, nor unsheath it unless (i. e. Reve or Bailiff.) “And as he bore the name," thou art ready for battle. But when thou comest says Godscroft, "so did he also execute the office to the place of fight, go aside from the rest, grasp of a grieve or overseer of the lands and rents, the and extend the sword, and breathe upon it. Then corn and cattle, of him with whom he lived." a small worm will creep out of the handle; lower From the habits of frugality and observation, which the handle that he may more easily return into it." he acquired in this humble situation, the historian Kormak, after having received the sword, returntraces that intimate acquaintance with popular ed home to his mother. He showed the sword, character, which enabled him to rise so high in and attempted to draw it, as unnecessarily as inthe state, and that hcaourable economy by which effectually, for he could not pluck it out of the |