tion, and, being dark on one side and
light on the other, they were emblematic of night and day.... There
is a tradition that the Cross of Christ was made of the wood of the
White Poplar, and throughout Christendom there is a belief that the
tree trembles and shivers mystically in sympathy with the ancestral
tree which became accursed.... Mrs. Hemans, in her 'Wood Walk,' thus
alludes to one of these old traditions:

FATHER.--Hast thou heard, my boy,
The peasant's legend of that quivering tree?

CHILD.--No, father; doth he say the fairies dance
Amidst its branches?

FATHER.--Oh! a cause more deep,
More solemn far, the rustic doth assign
To the strange restlessness of those wan leaves.
The Cross he deems--the blessed Cross, whereon
The meek Redeemer bow'd His head to death--
Was formed of Aspen wood; and since that hour
Through all its race the pale tree hath sent down
A thrilling consciousness, a secret awe
Making them tremulous, when not a breeze
Disturbs the airy Thistle-down, or shakes
The light lines from the shining gossamer."

Richard Folkard, _Plant Lore_, London, 1892, p. 503.]

Las cuencas del Moncayo[1] repitieron de eco en eco el bramido de las
trompas, el latir de la jauria desencadenada y las voces de los pajes
resonaron con nueva furia, y el confuso tropel de hombres, caballos y
perros se dirigio al punto que Inigo, el montero mayor de los
marqueses de Almenar,[2] senalara,[3] como el mas a proposito para
cortarle el paso a la res.

[Footnote 1: El Moncayo. See p. 8, note 1.]

[Footnote 2: Marqueses de Almenar. A title taken doubtless from the
little town of Almenar (650 inhabitants) situated in the province of
Soria near the right bank of the Rituerto river, southwest of the
Moncayo, and not far from that mountain.]

[Footnote 3: senalara. A relic of the Latin pluperfect (in _-aram_,
_-eram_), popularly confounded with the imperfect subjunctive. Its
use is now somewhat archaic, and is restricted to relative clauses.
See Ramsey's _Spanish Grammar_, H. Holt & Co., 1902, Sec. 944.]

Pero todo fue inutil. Cuando el mas agil de los lebreles llego a las
carrascas jadeante y cubiertas las fauces de espuma, ya el ciervo,
rapido como una saeta, las habia salvado de un solo brinco,
perdiendose entre los matorrales de una trocha, que conducia a la
fuente.

--iAlto!... iAlto todo el mundo