Show POPULAR TRADITION I 1 INSTANCES WHERE IT WAS FOUND FOUNDED ED ON historical FACT I 1 k the tb 4 the tk 01 1 it dk IT ot the he Tra ditle at t the tb mirte I 1 abolt A ft the lh bluth Ps ky key to the tk jcarl a breum there ai am jonm an and anti troug strong minded missionary la its tb the tough was who took a great deal of interest anbe in abe folklore 6 u the laland island when where be he dwelt after year years of study b he kad j op up bin him blind for good and all tuat them not a particle of fact io in the protecting to be historic blut orlo which hi hs lad had laboriously gathered gathor rd in distrust at all his awu credulity en unwilling to let people know that what a fool lie had lu 1 lie to rd lid me whole collection lota into the fire I 1 homai day days afterward there was a emif la to hurricane the islander landen li had old told blia him that once upon urmi a time icum ago a certain dammis chieftain chief talu fed OKA to lit sit on an i a tone stone bench beneath it tree which grew alomi to abe mission boom that bench had disappeared bo no one on knew know when or how bat but in tho the dy days of bes he 4 t 4 fl thy f to te ri p ay w 4 f the tc spirit c of ala ol 01 1 celii cw 1 sur Z ats t r where it had bad tood when wen the ra lIton I 1 ary callied oot act ou on tho the morning after ur the storm the first object iw lie noticed vac was thil tiro tree and in the midst of its it upturned roof roots hung a bench I 1 the reve renit gentleman was hl his name if it we re right tood stood in a inaze the legend va was trun then examination proved beyond a I 1 doubt that the bench ix had eted against the bole of the ilia free in rome distant age for there was DO trace of an incision rion the wood hod grown smoothly round and ter it IL so far as a ho he could roughly I 1 compute impute four centuries cent arid most hav bawd aiuto it tood stood outside the trunk for that line time the in Jal laDden auders had pre pr sorted the memory of a circumstance 0 me o trifling for to tbt that this KM who the bench they UM to their mathio bero would hare have been illy milly and the good man mourned bit his baste he bad destroyed the patient labor of years because be he would not credit the ao he count of grare grave events given in all 11 II serio ricus anci ness by member members of bli his flock and it lt hat that they wire trustworthy even on an cuch a detail ai as the per personal ronal habits ct of a mancho man who died year years aro ago the tory story li Is ono one ti ta bo be borne la in mind by nil all students of to klore more aud of that early in if human which la Is bated based upon tradition tion but it doc does not follow that ur whiting had gal goodcase bauw to lament hil his burned if he valued them only for the of events they might contain that there oro an particle of tact fact in tho the meet most grotesque of there three legends which proton to le hi hia e find alii more and nore more reason to believe Ps 9 car knowledge widens but it is rarely 11 to sift them from the lie niec of 0 poetic tion wnm say anres everywhere keep the memory of 0 lne incidents which occurred as wo we learn by internal int erual evidence an indefinite number of ages ago geologists recognize that the black sea two ans coca a lake like with no outlet to word ward the mediterranean they incline to think or believe that it escaped through the and tho the dardar nelles shortly after tho the glacial period bat but menzioni ment ioni ons a tradition of tho exactly aarre ing with this account which leaird I 1 of abo day havo hato framed upon tb tho leaching ef did the he 8 clani clans exist in the glacial glacis BIMI period they ay bat when the illick cea sea broke am it barriere barr irre at lit lat last all their country WM waa d drowned r a that wax w a s t abo b e ga m 0 tb r a el a n fi flood 0 and od it ii i e c evident ti d e nt e enoah no u g S that t h a g uch mu cant mut t have becu been the remit malt of the tb cataclysm there ia is a passage la in indar alo which pa in in an olla fion to tb pro ert vt traditions cf of ala le marn mammoth moth are so 0 o general aud and 0 a Tig rons arous in abo tb extreme north of amelica that dravants 1 of matlou are vie not dot unwilling to admit witult be 4 that it survived 1 00 20 years a aa and other others uno have oo 00 re rr potation to hazard bovery very lunch fur ther very mall small detail details are pree preferred erred by tho the lio polar pular inci memory uary sometimes when the wizard earl of boulls wae was can led off to bo be boiled bolted AUTO 11 as a the only mean means of killing him tradition op report ed that lie abrew away tinny key of bin treasure chamber it 16 could never ba i found bat but lec let than 60 ear tart afo agg laying in the booted ruin ruins a great key which might very well voll havo bu tn cn towal th through ham UMI of a opening ing aba point ii 11 ivelee the ilia IMA alone which tho wicked earl vas hur huz ried buee might bo cited aker even antique ot at buried treasure trea care have been moved 1 tr arv A notable ona li is told by tha worthy dr plot in ills history oj brancel cadler I 1 bad had a specially fine ale el 0 ibis sort alleging that a kavals crow crea 0 vai was oct in the moat ir itaco 1 a cottager cabied taller plot ng a hedge bedge alone along 40 tb mosill to knect bit boand a ret get with he told sold it to a jew ekr eler at for 37 the jeweler i transferred it to a lombard treet street rold smith at a great and ho he cold sold UK the diamonda alon alone for dundess atair lurd |