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" and hung over the President's chair at the Cymrygyddian at Abergavenny. I 

 s-i\v it there myself, and no doubt hundreds of others did so too." What 

 became of the man who cut it down, or the President himself afterwards, was 

 not stated (laughter). 



It's " an awesome thing" to injure a mistletoe-oak. At Eastnor a wood- 

 man got up simply to get a spray for a Malvern visitor, when he tumbled down 

 and broke his leg, and when some years after the late Town Clerk of Hereford 

 casually asked the same man to get some for him t he pointed to his leg and said, 

 " Not if I know it," and gave him the history of his former accident (laughter). 



A few years since a great amount of trouble was taken in vain to find a new 

 mistletoe oak, but discoveries, like accidents, come not singly. They had already 

 found two new ones during the last year, and therefore, according to ihe theory of 

 that profound philosopher, the learned Dr. Doubleday, as laid down in the 

 thirty-ninth section, the ninety-ninth chapter, book the seventh, of his 

 inimitable work on " The Doctrine of Probabilities," we ought soon to find one 

 or two more (laughter and applause). 



LIST OF EXISTING MISTLETOE OAKS. 



EASTNOR Pakk, Herefordshire. 



Tedstone Delahere, Herefordshire. 



The Forest of Deerfold, Herefordshire. 



Frampton-ox- Severn, Gloucestershire. 



Sudbcrt Park, Chepstow, Monmouthshire 



The Hexdre, Llangattock Lingoed, Monmouthshire. 



Buringfold Farm, Dunsfold, Surrey. 



Harkwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire. 



And on an Oak, nsar Plymouth. 



