Show A eight years old tuesday evening tho bells of all th parish churches of brussels rang merry peals to celebrate the anniversary of tha edum home from tho holy land of the of the who took part in the first crusade they had left in 1095 with godfrey of bouillon whom they left there and for six yeara no news had been received of them they were given up for lost and more than one of the forsaken wives was of giving a the absent ona when on jan at dusk the ar rival was announced of a troop of men of arms at the ite great was the joy in many houses and th long waited for husbands were welcomed with the best of suppers to which they did such ample that when bed time came they were unable to move from their chaira and their reliant wives had to carry them to bed until 1781 the council of brabant held no meeting on that day belgian news |