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116 in regard to this legend, they smilingly remarked that the ceremonies now attending the eclipse was but the more keeping up of an ancient custom, like the western nations hanging up stockings for St. Nicholas to fill with sweets; that the belief in the dragon Rahu of Siam was but a myth, as was that of St. George and the dragon of Britain.