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VIGNETTES FROM NATURE, 



fathers' world, the titanic, archaic, immemorial 

 temples of a forgotten creed. We do not 

 remember how terrible and sickening were 

 the realities of which these grey and yellow- 

 stained granite bosses are the sole remaining 

 vouchers. Time has turned the relics of some 

 Dahomey custom into a pretty antiquated 

 landmark and a romantic spot for holding a 

 picnic. ; r :-^.:r% 



Since then the rain has washed down every 

 particle of soil that formerly covered the dead 

 chieftain's grave. But still the memory of 

 what it all once meant has lived on uninter-, 

 ruptedly in the minds of the Ancient Britons 

 around the spot. While the doctors of the 

 eighteenth century were talking learned non- 

 sense about Druidical temples and Arkite 

 worship, the Welsh peasants of Mynydd 

 Mawr were speaking correctly every day of 

 the Fairy's Grave. For fairies and goblins 

 and all such Keltic superstitions are mainly 

 based upon stories about the ghosts of these 

 neolithic people, whom the Keltic Welsh 



