he hero
is by chance changed into an ass,, and has all sorts of adventures until
he is finally freed from the magic by eating roses in the hands of a
priest of Isis.

3. one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass. See the Arabian Nights'
Entertainments for the story of the one-eyed beggar.

6. Al-Borak: according to the Moslem creed the animal brought by Gabriel
to carry Mohammed to the seventh heaven. It had the face of a man, the
body of a horse, the wings of an eagle, and spoke with a human voice.

11. Marblehead, in Massachusetts.

30. Maenads: the nymphs who danced and sang in honor of Bacchus, the god
of vegetation and the vine.

35. Chalettr Bay, in Newfoundland, a part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE of NEWBURY

6. Deucalion flood. The python was a monstrous serpent which arose from
the mud left after the flood in which Deucalion survived. The python
lived in a cave on Mount Parnassus and there Apollo slew him. Deucalion
and his wife, Pyrrha were saved from the flood because Zeus respected
their piety. They obeyed the oracle and threw stones behind them from
which sprang men and women to repopulate the earth.

9. See "The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall" for another story of Newbury
town.

22. stones of Cheops: an Egyptian king, about 2900 b.c.; built the great
pyramid, which is called by his name.

59. Each town in colonial days set aside certain land for free
pasture-land for the inhabitants.

80. double-ganger: a double or apparition of a person; here, a reptile
moving in double form.

76. Cotton Mather (1663-1728). This precocious boy entered Harvard
College at eleven and graduated at fifteen. At seventeen he preached his
first sermon and all his life was a zealous divine. He was undoubtedly
sincere in his judgments in the cases of witchcraft and was not
thoughtlessly cruel. He was a great writer and politician and a public-
minded citizen.

85. Wonder-Book of Cotton Mather is his story of early New England life
called Magnalia Christi Americana.

MAUD MULLER

94. astral: a lamp with peculiar construction so that the shadow is not
cast directly below it.

BURNS

Burns. In connection with this poem may well be read the following poems
by Robert Burns (1759-1796): "The Twa Dogs," "A Man's a Man for A' That,"
"Cotter's Saturday Night" (Selections), "Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie
Doon," "Highland Mary."

40. allegory: the expression of an idea indire