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118 were still alive and may find means to revenge the death of Duncan, thus addresses Lady Macbeth: —

As the witches in Macbeth made use of "Baboon's blood" when preparing a charm, so they also availed themselves of—

Hamlet, while railing at his mother for marrying the murderer of his father, says:—

my last communication I have noted but few observations of interest. Whether from the unusual wetness of the season—fifty-four inches of rain having fallen here in 1877, against an average of thirty-six inches for the last four years—or from the absence of any continued frost, the visits of very few rare birds have been recorded. It must not be inferred from this that no uncommon varieties have been observed in the neighbourhood, for many may have been seen and even procured without any record having been made of the fact. Indeed, I am inclined to think that to one recorded instance of the occurrence of a rare species a dozen may be really understood to have appeared in the same district.