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chase of another. When the fifteenth has 

 been purchased there will soon be talk of 

 another, for guns are things you never get 

 tired of buying and trying. Under the table 

 on the stone floor is one of Sir Francis 

 Drake's magic cannon-balls. The tale is 

 well known how he was fighting the Span- 

 iards, and his faithless lady-love at home 

 started for church to wed a rival, but at the 

 altar a mighty cannon ball, shot from over 

 the ocean, passed between the bride and 

 bridegroom. The admiral and magician thus 

 warned them of his displeasure. Something 

 of its charmed character adheres to the ball 

 still ; and if carried away, no matter to what 

 distance, it invariably rolls back home of its 

 own accord, and is found in its accustomed 

 place. Few can lift, or carry, the heavy 

 black globe, which has the outward appear- 

 ance of a meteorite. 



Silvery-grey tapestry covers the walls of 



