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Wingate says and he knows court-cattle well that if you are told old King Coul is come alive again, you should turn it off with, 'And is he in truth? I heard not of it, and should seem no more moved, than if one told you, by way of novelty, that old King Coul was dead and buried.

"The word Banchicheisi I found to contain the Celtic ban, a barrow; and Coptic isi, plenty; whilst I recognized in the words Coulmenes, the Celtic Coul, a man's name, i.e.

Finn, son of Coul; in Thottirnanoge, the Coptic Thoth, i.e. name of ancient Egyptian deity, and Erse Tirnanoge, the name of the wife of Oisin, the last of the Feni; in Chaac-molrée the Coptic deity, ; in Ozilmeave, the Celtic Meave, a girl's name; in Taramoo, the Celtic Tara, a girl's name; and in Nikétoth, toth, the Erse technical form of feminine gender; and comparing the alphabets I traced a very striking likeness between the Atlantean

Leaving a solitary Jacobite vision, for a true blue Presbyterian 'experience, we learn that Wodrow's own wedded wife had a pious vision, 'a glorious, inexpressible brightness'. The thought which came presently was, 'This perhaps may be Satan, transforming himself into an angel of light'. 'It mout or it moutn't. In 1729, Wodrow heard of the ghost of the Laird of Coul, which used to ride one of his late tenants, transformed into a spectral horse.

He won not battles like Robert the First. He rose not from a count to a king like Robert the Second. He founded not churches like Robert the Third, but was contented to live and die king of good fellows! Of all my two centuries of ancestors, I would only emulate the fame of "Old King Coul, Who had a brown bowl."

Riley was counting up; in Oesterle's, where a hot discussion was going on as to whether Christopher Columbus was a Dutchman or a Dago, and in Miller's, where Tom Ball was telling Tony, who impassively wiped the perforated brass plate let into the top of the bar, that he, Tom Ball, "coul' lick em man ill Logan coun'y."

He discovered among the Manx traditions much about Finn Ma Coul, or M'Coyle, who appears in The Romany Rye as a notability of Ireland. He ascended Snaefell, sought out the daughter of George Killey, the Manx poet, and had much talk with her, she taking him for a Manxman. The people of the island he liked.

"W'y, suh, I had my min' flung down on er 'ligious subjeck an' it wuz all I coul' do ter t'ar it off." "Ah, thought I hearn suthin' rip like a piece of tent cloth," and giving Kintchin the harness he continued: "Here, hitch up old Dick and drive these folks over to the post office." "Yas, suh." "And when you come back you can break that young steer." "Yas, suh, break de steer."

Shah Mansur, Prince of Fars, or the proper Persia, was one of the least powerful, but most dangerous, of his enemies. In a battle under the walls of Shiraz, he broke, with three or four thousand soldiers, the coul, or main body, of thirty thousand horse, where the Emperor fought in person.

'Thank you for your tale, but it makes me weep; it brings to my mind Dungarvon times of old I mean the times we were at school together. 'Cheer up, man, said I, 'and let's have the story, and let it be about Ma-Coul and the salmon and his thumb. 'Well, you know Ma- Coul was an exposed child, and came floating over the salt sea in a chest which was cast ashore at Veintry Bay.