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138 gold was so heavy that the plaid tore, and only a few pieces slid into the boat and the rest of the treasure still lies in Glendhu. A year later the man who had shot the king's son said: "I go a fishing, and in the port of Siveno."

"While he fished he saw a small boat coming over the water towards him, and in the boat was a man with gold sewed all over his clothes, and a sword. The little boat came alongside, and then the man, who had the face of Siveno the king's son, shot the fisherman of Glendhu. He cried, "I gave it before, and I get it now," and he died.

The harbor is called the port of Siveno, or Sweno, to this day.

"GETTING A RESPONSE."

Sir James Stewart, the favorite of the Scottish king, was murdered in 1596, at Cotstark, in the parish of Symington, Lanarkshire. He had defied the Douglas clan, but Douglas of Torthorwald, overtook and slew him in that glen. Says Archbishop Spotteswoode in his history (III. 40): "Captain Stewart had asked the name of the piece of ground on which they were, and, on learning the name of it, commanded his company to ride more quickly as having gotten a response to beware of "such a place." Query? What did an Archbishop mean by a "response"?

THE JERUSALEM CHAMBER.

King Henry IV., having a holy purpose to go to Jerusalem, was dissuaded by a prophecy that he must die in Jerusalem. Palling mortally sick at Westminster he learnt that the room where he lay was named ''"the Jerusalem Chamber." "In that Jerusalem shall Harry die,''" said the king, and kept his word, passing away in that same room and bed in Westminster.

KING CAMBYSES.

The oracle of Buto in Egypt warned Cambyses that he should die in Eckbatana, so he determined never to go there. One day in the chase the king was wounded. He asked the name of the place in which they laid him down to have his