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Show fl HAWTHORN TREE THEIR MASCOT H Scotti&h Family Fears Disaster With Jj Decline of Relic, fl In two notnblo cases in Brltnln tho b family mascot Is a tree. Tho foundn F tlon of Cawdor castlo, near Nairn, H are built round a hawthorn tree, nnd H thoro Is an ancient tradition to tho ji 1 effect that thd dlsappearanqo of this H troo will bo a sign that dlro mlsfor- J tunes will shortly overwhelm tho fain- H Ily. . "Freshness to tho hawthorn troo H of Cawdor" is consequently tho hap- I H plcst form of felicitation to tho Camp- J bells of Cawdor. Tho tree must bo H about five hundred years old, accord- H to tho most moderate computation, so H that thero cannot bo very much H "freshness" about it at tho present J day; but It still has Its roots In the Hawthorn tree In Cawdor castle. fl soil and Its stem rises through the fl floor of ono of tho dungeons, whero U fl may still bo seen keoplug tho ancient j legend In countenance. |