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Rh festivities given in honour of the happy return, ranked the wedding of Reginald and Hildegarde, his lovely bride. A whole year had passed ere they ceased their various amusements and festivities.

The princes at last considered that so long an enjoyment of pleasure would destroy the manly courage and activity of their knights and squires. The residence of the count was also too small for so many different courts, and they prepared for departure. Reginald, heir of the county, always remained with his parents, and closed their eyes, as a dutiful son ought. Albert, the Bear, bought the county Askania, and founded the town of Bearborough. Edgar, the Eagle, went into Helvetia, where in the shadow of the high Alps, he founded the town of Eagleborough, upon a river, at that time without a name, but afterwards called the Eagle, from the town which it watered. Ufo, the Dolphin, went with an army into Burgundy, conquered part of the country, and called the conquered province the Dolphinate. And as the three princes had given names to their towns and dynasties in remembrance of their enchantment they took also the forms of the beasts as symbols in their coats of arms. Therefore it is that the town of Bearsborough has