Part 5 (1/2)

Her husband was buried in Teviotdale churchyard, and she was in the habit of stealing away frorave Thesea new i her for a time the victim of any fancy that chanced to enter her ined that the young farreat exhilaration of spirits, deterht ca man his life He was taken from his saddle to his bed, where he lay for weeks prostrated by a high nervous fever

An e the above authentic story, remarks:--

”If this woman had dropped from the horse unobserved by the rider, it would have been very hard to convince the honest farmer that he had not actually perforhost behind him”

True Teviotdale churchyard would have obtained the reputation of being haunted, and would have been a terror to weak-norant and sireat and learned Pascal, than whom France has produced no more worthy philosopher, believed that an awful chas thrown This dreadful vision, with other fancies as glooave a dark coloring to certain of his writings

Yet Pascal, on ht have been the influence, had his disorder assumed a different forhost!

Before giving credit to stories of supernatural events, even fro friends will consider duly how liable to error are an unhealthy ination Every man is not a knave or a cheat who claiment of very excellent persons is liable to be infected by illusions of the iination

I do not say that we eologist, the botanist, the ches in nature that the unschooled and undeveloped do not see, so it may be that a spiritually educated ross and selfish e upon this topic or discuss this question; it ht not be proper for me so to do

Master Lewis had aimed to make clear to the boys that it is easy to start a superstitious story, and to suggest that such stories in ignorant tiends_

[Illustration: OLD FORTRESS ON THE RHINE]

”I propose,” said Willie Clifton, ”that the first seven ht call this series of hts on the Rhine_,”

added Herman Reed

”The old meht give us an account of that journey,” suggested one of the new boys

The plans suggested by these remarks e the literary exercises for seven hts on the Rhine_

The literary exercises for the present evening consisted of the relation of historic ghost stories, chiefly bythese were the Province House Stories of Hawthorne, the tradition of Mozart's Requiem, the cock Lane Ghost, and several incidents froiven by Toraduate of the Academy

TOMMY TOBY'S STORY OF ST DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL AND THE SIX BOY KINGS

A splendid court had Athelstane, and foreign princes ca these princes was Louis, the son of Charles the Siland, obtained the pretty nas were celebrated there The kingof France, another to the Eo the Great, Count of Paris, and another to the Duke of Aquitaine

After the fight with the Cornish men, all of the land was at peace for many years, and the nobility became very scholarly and the people very polite

Athelstane had a favorite, a friar, who eneration than any other man This man is known in history by the name of St Dunstan

When Dunstan was a boy, he was taken very ill of a fever One night, being delirious, he got up from his bed, and walked to Glasobry church, which was then repairing, and ascended the scaffolds and went all over the building; and because he did not tumble off and break his neck, people said that he had perfor directed by an angel

This was called Dunstan's first miracle