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when the lad swore, that if Sir Eske 
would give him his hat again, none of 
the children which his newly-married 
wife might in future bear him: should 
ever come to want, the nobleman re- 
stored it, thinking that he was well paid 
by such a promise.. But when the lad 
went from the gate, he said: “It is true 
they shall neyer want food, money, or 
clothes, for they shall all be still-born.” 
And so, indeed, it came to pass, for all 
the children Sir Eske’s wife brought 
forth were dead before they saw the 
light, so that he died the last of his 
race. 
Signelil and Habor. 
Near Ringsted lies Sigarsted, which 
takes its name from King Sigar, who 
dwelt there. His daughter Signelil loved 
Habor, a warrior; and the spot is shewn, 
near Alsted, where the lovers used to 
meet. It is now called “ Signelil’s 
walk.” Once, when she and her father 
were out hunting, they pursued a stag 
across the stream of Vangstrup, where 
her horse fell beneath her, and her life 
was in great danger; but Habor coming 
up at the critical moment, plunged into 
the water and saved her. Their mutual 
tenderness was at length carried to such 
a pitch, that Habor, disguised as a maid 
servant, waited upon Signelil, ‘and lay 
with her every night ; but Gunvare, Sig- 
nelil’s nurse and confidante, betrayed 
the whole proceeding to King Sigar. 
All now being discovered, and Habor 
being seized by the king’s men, the two 
lovers vowed to die together. Habor 
was led forth to the “ Gallows-hill,” in 
order to be hanged; but, just before his 
death, he felt a desire to put Signelil’s 
fidelity to the proof; and he therefore 
entreated. the executioners, that before 
they despatched him, they. would hoist 
his cloak upon the gallows, so that he 
might thereby see how he himself would 
hang. In the mean time, Signelil cast 
all her valuables into a deep pit, which 
is now called Signelil’s well; and whence 
arises the saying, that Sigarsted has 
more gold and silver in it than it knows 
of. She then locked herself if her 
bower, and fixed her eyes upon the gal- 
lows on which Habar was to be hanged. 
But when she saw the mantle, she set 
fire to her bower, in the belief. that 
Habor was already dead; and when the 
bower and Signelil were burning, Habor, 
who was convinced of her love, allowed 
himself to be executed, He was after- 
wards. buried in the height of Hage. 
But the accursed nurse reaped the just 
reward of her treachery; for Sigar, con- 
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sidering her to be the cause of his 
daughter’s death, caused her to be 
placed in a barrel of spikes, and rolled 
down the Gallows-hill. 
( To be continued. ) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. . 
On Steam Navication, and the Pre- 
VENTION of LiaziLity to AccIDENTS 
in STEAM VESSELS. 
a application of the steam-en- 
gine to the purposes of navigation, 
has opened a new and most interest- 
ing field in practical science. If the 
adoption of the steam-engine for: pro- 
pelling ships and vessels of all kinds 
should proceed, at the same ratio, for 
ten years longer that it has during the 
last ten years, its importance to navi- 
gation will equal that of its application 
in all other situations combined. For, 
in proportion as water-carriage super- 
sedes land-carriage, and inland naviga- 
tion becomes extended, so will the 
steam-engine facilitate that communi- 
cation, in every instance where the 
labour of horses or manual labour is at 
present employed. 
That objections should be -raised, 
against every invention for abridging 
labour by those whose interest it af- 
fects, cannot excite surprise. Where 
large numbers of workmen are em- 
ployed in the same pursuit, they have 
frequently manifested such hostility to 
the introduction of any thing in the 
shape of improvement, as to call forth 
both the civil and military police to 
prevent the destruction. of — property. 
A striking instance of this hostility 
against steam-navigation was shewn a 
few years back by the bargemen, or keel- 
men, who navigate the coal-lighters in 
the river Tyne. Immediately on the 
introduction of a steam-boat on the 
Tyne, this powerful 
thought their rights invaded; and they 
proceeded to serious acts of outrage, 
which were only subdued by the aid of 
military force. But, instead of vessels 
waiting fora fair wind to proceed up 
the river to obtain their loading at the 
extremities of the rail-ways of the re- 
spective .coal-pits, they are now ena- 
bled, with the assistance of steam-tow- 
boats, to proceed up the river at all 
times, against both wind and tide; 
and having received their cargo, they 
may be out at sea again within forty- 
eight hours, instead of being wind- 
bound for weeks at the mouth of the 
river. 
Now there appears to be_no reason 
existing 
body of men 
