Ban and Arriere Ban by Andrew Lang
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such as an old cavalier, surviving to 1743, might perhaps have
entertained. 'Wullie Wanbeard' is a Jacobite name for the Prince of Orange, perhaps invented only by the post-Jacobite sentiment of the early nineteenth century. BRITANNIA ROUSSEAU'S DELIGHT. The pervenche, or periwinkle. A TOAST One of the college bells Of St. Salvator, mentioned by Ferguson, is called 'Kate Kennedy'; the heroine is unknown, but Bishop Kennedy founded the College. 'Kate Kennedy's Day' was a kind of carnival, probably a survival from that festivity. THE DISAPPOINTMENT. As a matter of fact the Haunted House Committee of the Society for Psychical Research have never succeeded in seeing a ghost. |
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