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An old ballad or carol called "Carnal and Crane," seems to embody some curious reminiscences of passages in the Apocryphal Gospels, mixing up with, them other legends. The piece consists of thirty verses of four lines each, and is therefore too long to be quoted entire, but I cannot refrain from giving some portions of it.