IN LEGEND AND HISTORY 8i 



some question. The saint, who understood 

 their language, fetched a little basket made 

 of rushes and bits of . straw and put it on the 

 floor. And the ^ birds at once began 

 to make their 

 nest in it 



And since then, every year, on 

 the very same day and at the 

 very same hour the swallows come and ask 

 for the little rush basket for their nest, and 

 for a refuge under the roof of the cell. 



Our next legend takes us to a famous 

 shrine of the Middle Ages, the reputed rest- 

 ing place of the bones of Saint James, he 

 "who was buried more distant from his 

 country than any other of the Apostles." 

 This shrine, which for centuries was the 

 most favored gathering place for pious pil- 



CAM. SW. BK. — 6 



