IN PROVERBS AND RIDDLES 113 



Little flower of myrtle bright — 

 I like my sweetheart lythe and light, 

 Like a swallow in her flight. 



Many years ago in a little village in the 

 western part of the island of Sicily, there 

 lived a very old man who, it was rumored, 

 made tails for swallows. He was very poor 

 and very small and very pious, and so they 

 gave him the name of Saint Miserino, which 

 means all those things. To-day the people 

 who live in that village recall him in a say- 

 ing addressed to a person who attempts to 

 do the impossible: — 



For Saint Miserino you I'd mistake, 



Who tails for swallows thought he could make. 



In Italy, the beatings of a pretty girl's 

 heart are called " swallows' wings," and when 

 a child is exceptionally bright in his studies, 

 they say of him : "He must have eaten a 

 swallow's heart." In the Chapter on Medi- 

 cine we shall learn the meaning of this 

 saying. 



The answer to each of the following rid- 



CAM. SW. BK. 



