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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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