| Show Fabled Unicorn Has English In Argument Milk White Stag Reported Seen in in Scotland Some Scoff at Report Eight Have Identified It Lady Fane Declares She Saw a Sea Serpent Feet Long By Dr JESSIE JRSSIE The The New Yorker Ablo Abroad I Special Dispatch to The Stand Stand- Standard ard tand- tand ard ard Examiner CoPYright 1927 Consolidated Press Association LONDON LONDO Jan At 1 1 At last the theman theman theman man who thought up the English coat of or arms Is vindicated There Is after all such an ani- ani animal animal ani animal mal as the unicorn according to some observers At the moment this tabled fabled creature is galumph galumph- galumphIng galumphing ing around the Duke or of o Argyll's forest In Scotland with an occa occa- occasional occasional sally Rally across the border to the tho wilder districts of ot northern Ingland And its it's rapidly getting gelling out of oC the fable table class and Into real life lite That Is unless it happens to lo be ben bea bea n a supernatural visitor In which case its appearance augurs what knows knows what of or Impending cal cal- calamity calamity cal calamity amity for the united d so to speak I kingdom lUcK HACK n 1 At present as In the early six six- sixteenth sixteenth six sixteenth century there are arc those In England who fiercely contend tend that unicorns do let exist exist let the devotees or of natural history say what hat they ma may When hen early English lIsh explorers ex- ex ex explorers roamed the American sea sea- seaboard seaboard sea seaboard board they felt their expedition Incomplete unless the they brought back a 3 bit ot or unicorns unicorn's horn to the sovereign so Among Henry the Eighths Eighth's treasures possessions was such a 3 fragment set in silver sliver It guarded against poison polson for one thing thine though what Henry Henr with his array of or six wives teems seems to have ha needed more was some talisman against heart trouble In the Cluney museum at the most famous tapestry In the world picturing the he taming of a unicorn by a thoroughly virtuous lady dy The ancients were well enough acquainted with unicorns to be bo able abe to state that these ant ant- ani animals mals were terrine terric terr lo fighters but could be captured meek as lambs It if approached by a woman of or ab- ab absolute ab solute purity The tact fact that unicorns seem seldom to have been captured is neither here nor there The fur fur- further fur fUl further ther fact tact remains that those Eng Eng- English Eng English lish people who now insist t on the realness of or the unicorn have e some show or of o precedent tor for their be- be bel be belief l lief lIer leL What supernatural or otherwise the appearance of or the Scotch uni- uni unicorn uni unicorn I Icorn corn forebodes is a 3 question agi- agi agitating agi agitating tating fat far greater numbers or of English right now than you mIght suppose considering the reputation reputation reputation tion for or hard headedness which the English enjoy There are hundreds who believe belle the tho flit flit- flitting flitting ting ting white single-horned single and elusive animal of or the thc Argyll woods to be an apparition meant to wars against famine amine pestilence II a a new war ar er general strike or the spread of or radicalism So far Car eIght people declare they havo have b bs- bs be beheld held the unicorn and so deeply Is the public Intrigued by the tho Ide Idea that it wont won't be bc surprising It If 1800 more see sea It in various parts or orthe orthe the kingdom within the next few weeks weeks-or or maybe a herd ot or uni- uni unicorns uni unicorns corns EVEN VJ I SEE tK SERPENTS Led by tho Duke of Argyll himself who thinks the Iho milk white stag sta with one ono horn was a freak Creak o of nature which mys ms vanished from pursers by jumping over a cliff there are those who scoff at unicorns and proclaIm this animal to be as mythical as ns the sea serpent but Aha Ahal theres there's the catch Sea ser ser- serpents serpents ser serpents are aro not mythical and Lady Augusta Fane has the tho witnesses to prove provo it This sister of ot the Earl of or the the peer who last la t year ear was governor of Victoria in 11 has Australia Australia has pub pub- published pub published her entertaining and gos- gos gossipy gossipy gos gossipy book Chit Chat in the nick of oC time to save t the c sea serpent and with b the unicorn from death at the hands handsor or of scoffers Lady met the sea ser ser- ser serpent pent about the year ear 1906 in Mira flay Day Dominion of Canada Capada A serpent feet long with II a ahead ahead head lifted tour four feet above the wat water r Euch such a aa as she describes Is considerable serpent It makes one on lon lone lonn unicorn only the size of ofa ofa ofa a stag 1001 look pretty small and small and not nol too 00 |
