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Show "Wrath Silver." A quaint custom, dating back to Anglo-Saxon timog, known as payment of "wrath silver," was recently observed ob-served at Knightlow Hill, a tumulus between Rugby and Coventry, England. Eng-land. It consists of tributo payable by certain parishes in Warwickshire to the duke of Buccleuch. The silver has to be deposited ut daybreak in a hollow stone by representatives of the parishes, the penalty for default being forfeiture of a white bull with red nose aud ears. Tho representatives afterward diued together at the duke's expense. |