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But men, like those of yore, 1. sce not now, —. 
So full of manhood, firmness, frankness, sense, 
To honour, right, and truth, so tied, and steadfast, 
With hand and heart, and countenance, So open, 
So without guile, as were King Meliad, 
Hector the Brown, and Danayn the Red, 
And my friend Geron, still susnamed 
teous, 
Such men, by God! TI ne’er shall see again.” 
Here the old man’s voice faultered, and he bowed 
His head, and paused. And all were silent too 
For a long time: none dared to interrupt 
The holy stillness, till at length Guenara 
Winked to Sir Lancelot, who understood her, 
And thus to Branor said : ‘* We, antient sir, 
Are all too young to have known the knights you 
mention 3 
Only in you, who knew them, they still live. 
’Tiwould be some solace to us, from the one 
Spared to our times, to hear of them and their’s.”? 
King Aythur and the gueen, and all the knights, 
Chimed ia with Lancelots prayer: not aloud, 
Yet not unheeded, the young ladies plead, 
And by the stooping eye, and colouring cheek, 
LBewray a bashiul peiaeity 
Then Branor, nodding {:tendly, look’d at them, 
And said, ** Your very prayer is courtesy; 
Old age prates willingly, as well you know, 
And loves to talk about the good old times 
That are no more; in which, asia a dieam 
Of bliss, it still can lingering stray delighted. 
Pil te) you of the nobiest man I knew, 
Of Geron,—'tis fall seventy years and more 
Since a strange accident broucht us toxether. 
I was on horseback, strolling through the forest 
In quest of same adventure, When a storm 
Assail’d me suddenly: [ sought for shelter 
Under a cavern, where soon perceiv’d 
A narrow path, whichled into the mountain. 
(To bé continued.) 
—a—— 
To the: Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HERE is a curious fact in zoo- 
4- logy, which is not noticed by,any 
writer upon the subject that I have 
met with, but of which I was once an 
eye-wituess ; namely, that bats some- 
times carry their young ones upon 
their back... When L was a few years 
sincerambling with some others among 
the trees in Ackworth-park, near Pon- 
tefraect, in Yorkshire, in the middle of 
the day; I perceived a bat flying near 
me, which was followed iu a little 
time by another, and, in a few minutes 
_ after, by a:third. So unusual a cir- 
cumstance engaged my attention, par- 
ticularly as they all flew in the sainé 
Straight dixvection, without returning. 
Tt also excited my curiosity to disco- 
ver from whence they came. I ac- 
the Cour- 
cordingly walked in the contrary _ 
direction, and soon came to a tree in 
which was a hole, made by a wood- 
pecker, about ten or twelve feet from 
the ground, from which I saw several 
bats take their flight. My companions 
. climbed into the tree, and stationed 
themscives on each side of the hole, 
and soon informed: me that the bats 
carried their young upon their backs ; 
and endeavoured to knock them down 
with their hats, as they issued from 
the hole. ‘They struck to the ground 
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two young ones, which I picked up, 
and an old-one. I then climbed into 
the tree; my companions made room 
for me; and ina short time a bat ap- 
peared at the edge of the hole, when 
I very plainly saw a young one upon 
its back: it remained there a few se- 
conds, and then took its flight: We 
then descended, and weut in their di- 
rection; and at the distance ofaboutan 
hundred yards we came to another 
tree, in which also was a woodpecker’s 
hole, into which we saw several enter. 
The hole from which they issued stank 
most offensively, which was probably 
occasioned by the death of some ofthe 
family, and was the cause of the emi- 
gration of the rest. 
Sept. 10,1822. R..G. Ropinson. 
Chesterton, near Cambridge. 
—a—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
READ with interest a letter from 
Mr. Graham in your last nuraber; 
calling the attention of your readeys to 
the lime-water procured from the gas- 
works, as an effectual remedy for that 
iroublesome and disagreeable disease 
—the ring-worm. I have for a consi; 
derable period used what is called in 
the London Pharmacopotia the Un- 
guentum Hydrergyrt Nitratis, mixed 
with an equal portion ef lard, or wax 
ceraie, as an external - application ; 
giving, at the same time, gentile pur- 
gatives twice in the day. I can truly 
say, that I have never known the aboye 
remedies to. fail. 
My object in this letter is not to de- 
preciate the value of Mr. Graham’s 
remedy, but merely to point out a 
more attainable and less disagreeable 
method than the one noticed by that 
gentleman. I fully concur with him in 
recommending perfect cleanliness, and 
washing the head with soap’and wa~- 
ter. Mepicus. 
Sept. 13, 1822. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIB, 
HAVE already given the public 
some insight into the deteriorating 
practices of paper-makers, as produac- 
tive of the gencral bad qualities both 
of prmting and writing papers. I 
therein traced its origin to the inqui- 
sitorial heavy pressure of the excise, 
operating upon an article which can- 
not fairly bear so grievous an impost. 
‘To remunerate themselves in the only 
Ss way 
