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ROYAL CHASE OF SHIKLOT. 



To come down from the earliest times. How the 

 old Druids reverenced them ! how the compilers 

 of that surprising survey of the country we find in 

 Domesday noted all details concerning them ! what 



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joyous allusions Chaucer, Spenser, and later writers 

 make to them ! what peculiar charms the " merry 

 green- wood" and the deep forest glades had for 

 the imagination of the people ! Hence the popular 

 sympathy expressed by means of tales and tradi- 



