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# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/The Baker's Dozen

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THE BAKER'S DOZEN
BAAS [BOSS] VOLCKERT JAN PIETERSEN VAN AMSTERDAM kept a bake-shop in Albany, and lives in history as the man who invented New Year cakes and made gingerbread babies in the likeness of his own fat offspring. Good churchman though he was, the bane of his life was a fear of being bewitched, and perhaps it was to keep out evil spirits, who might make one last effort to gain the mastery over him, ere he turned the customary leaf ​with the incoming year, that he had primed himself with an extra glass of spirits on the last night of 1654. His sales had been brisk, and as he sat in his little shop, meditating comfortably on the gains he would make when his harmless rivals—the knikkerbakkers (bakers of marbles)—sent for their usual supply of olie-koeks and mince-pies on the morrow, he was startled by a sharp rap, and an ugly old woman entered. Give me a dozen New Year's cookies!" she cried, in a shrill voice.
"Vell, den, you needn' sheak so loud. I aind teaf, den."
"A dozen!" she screamed. "Give me a dozen. Here are only twelve."
"Vell, den, dwalf is a dozen."
"One more! I want a dozen."
"Vell, den, if you vant anodder, go to de duyvil and ged it."
Did the hag take him at his word? She left the shop, and from that time it seemed as if poor Volckert was bewitched, indeed, for his cakes were stolen; his bread was so light that it went up the chimney, when it was not so heavy that it fell through the oven; invisible hands plucked bricks from that same oven and pelted him until he was blue; his wife became deaf, his children went unkempt, and his trade went elsewhere. Thrice the old woman reappeared, and each time was sent anew to the devil; but at last, in despair, the baker called on Saint Nicolaus to come and advise him. His call ​was answered with startling quickness, for, almost while he was making it, the venerable patron of Dutch feasts stood before him. The good soul advised the trembling man to be more generous in his dealings with his fellows, and after a lecture on charity he vanished, when, lo! the old woman was there in his place.
She repeated her demand for one more cake, and Volckert Jan Pietersen, etc., gave it, whereupon she exclaimed, "The spell is broken, and from this time a dozen is thirteen!" Taking from the counter a gingerbread effigy of Saint Nicolaus, she made the astonished Dutchman lay his hand upon it and swear to give more liberal measure in the future. So, until thirteen new States arose from the ruins of the colonies,—when the shrewd Yankees restored the original measure,—thirteen made a baker's dozen.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To One Smoking

This Frederic W. H. Myers parody was first published here.
I. Of F. W. H. M.
1. To One that smokes.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/The Devil's Dance-Chamber

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THE DEVIL'S DANCE-CHAMBER.
MOST storied of our New World rivers is the Hudson. Historic scenes have been enacted on its shores, and Indian, Dutchman, Briton, and American have invested it with romance. It had its source, in the red man's fancy, in a spring of eternal youth; giants and spirits dwelt in its woods and hills, and before the river—Shatemuc, king of streams, the red men called it—had broken through the highlands, those mountains were a pent for spirits who had rebelled against the Manitou. ​After the waters had forced a passage to the sea these evil ones sought shelter in the glens and valleys that open to right and left along its course, but in time of tempest, when they hear Manitou riding down the ravine on wings of storm, dashing thunderbolts against the cliffs, it is the fear that he will recapture them and force them into lightless caverns to expiate their revolt, that sends them huddling among the rocks and makes the hills resound with roars and howls.
At the Devil's Dance-Chamber, a slight plateau on the west bank, between Newburg and Crom Elbow, the red men performed semi-religious rites as a preface to their hunting and fishing trips or ventures on the war-path. They built a fire, painted themselves, and in that frenzy into which savages are so readily lashed, and that is so like to the action of mobs in trousers, they tumbled, leaped, danced, yelled, sang, grimaced, and gesticulated until the Manitou disclosed himself, either as a harmless animal or a beast of prey. If he came in the former shape the augury was favorable, but if he showed himself as a bear or panther, it was a warning of evil that they seldom dared to disregard. The crew of Hudson's ship, the Half Moon, having chanced on one of these orgies, were so impressed by the fantastic spectacle that they gave the name Duyvels Dans-Kamer to the spot. Years afterwards, when Stuyvesant ascended the river, his doughty retainers were horrified, on landing below ​the Dans-Kamer, to discover hundreds of painted figures frisking there in the fire-light. A few surmised that they were but a new generation of savages holding a powwow, but most of the sailors fancied that the assemblage was demoniac, and that the figures were spirits of bad Indians repeating a scalp-dance and revelling in the mysterious fire-water that they had brought down from the river source in jars and skins. The spot was at least once profaned with blood, for a young Dutchman and his wife, of Albany, were captured here by an angry Indian, and although the young man succeeded in stabbing his captor to death, he was burned alive on the rock by the friends of the Indian whose wrath he had provoked. The wife, after being kept in captivity for a time, was ransomed.
# To One That Smokes

A parody of Frederic W. H. Myers.
* "To One Smoking" in Lapsus Calami (1st edition, April 1891)
* "To One that Smokes" in Lapsus Calami (4th edition, August 1891)
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To One that Smokes

A parody of Frederic W. H. Myers.
SINCERE FLATTERY.
I. Of F. W. H. M.
i. To One that smokes.
# California v. Krivda/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Per Curiam Opinion of the Court
[p34] PER CURIAM.
On the basis of evidence obtained in a police search of respondents' trash, respondents were charged with possession of marihuana in violation of § 11530 of the California Health & Safety Code. The Supreme Court of California affirmed the superior court's judgment of dismissal and order suppressing the evidence on the grounds that, under the circumstances of this case, respondents "had a reasonable expectation that their trash would not be rummaged through and picked over by police officers acting without a search warrant." People v. Krivda, 5 Cal. 3d 357, 366-367, 486 P. 2d 1262, 1268 (1971) (en banc). We granted certiorari. 405 U.S. 1039.
[p35] After briefing and argument, however, we are unable to determine whether the California Supreme Court based its holding upon the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, or upon the equivalent provision of the California Constitution, or both. In reaching its result in this case, the California court cited pertinent excerpts from its earlier decision in People v. Edwards, 71 Cal. 2d 1096, 458 P. 2d 713 (1969) (en banc), which relied specifically upon both the state and federal provisions. 5 Cal. 3d, at 367, 486 P. 2d, at 1269. Thus, as in Mental Hygiene Dept. v. Kirchner, 380 U.S. 194, 196-197 (1965), "[w]hile we might speculate from the choice of words used in the opinion, and the authorities cited by the court, which provision was the basis for the judgment of the state court, we are unable to say with any degree of certainty that the judgment of the California Supreme Court was not based on an adequate and independent nonfederal ground." We therefore vacate the judgment of the Supreme Court of California and remand the cause to that court for such further proceedings as may be appropriate. Mental Hygiene Dept v. Kirchner, supra; Minnesota v. National Tea Co., 309 U.S. 551 (1940); State Tax Comm'n v. Van Cott, 306 U.S. 511 (1939). We intimate no view on the merits of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment issue presented.
# Illinois v. Michigan

Supreme Court of the United States
409 U.S. 36
Illinois v. Michigan
On Motion For Leave to File Bill of Complaint
No. 57, Orig. Argued: N/A --- Decided: October 24, 1972
The failure of the State of Illinois to petition for a writ of certiorari with respect to an adverse Michigan Supreme Court decision in a case to which Illinois was a party "vindicat[ing]... grievances of particular individuals" precludes recourse to this Court's original jurisdiction as an alternative to normal appellate review.
Motion review. See 386 Mich. 474, 192 N.W. 2d 242.
PER CURIAM.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To A. S.

This Robert Browning parody was first published in The Cambridge Meteor, 13 June 1882. It appears here along with two other Browning parodies: "The Last Ride Together" and "Midsummer." In "A Parodist's Apology" (written after Browning's death) J. K. S. noted his admiration for the poet.
II. Of R. B.
I. To A. S.
P.S.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Midsummer

This Robert Browning parody was first published in the Eton Rambler, June 1880.
3. Midsumer
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Of W. W. (Americanus)

First published as "After Walt Whitman" in The Granta, 31 January 1891.
III. Of W. W. (Americanus).
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Of W. W. (Britannicus)

This William Wordsworth parody was first published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 21 March 1883.
IV. Of W. W. (Britannicus).
Poetic lamentation on the insufficiency of steam locomotion in the lake district.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Of T. G.

This Thomas Gray parody was originally published under the title "Lines on a Recent Event at Eton College" in the Pall Mall Gazette, 17 November 1882. The "Recent Event" referred to was James Leigh Joynes' forced resignation from his post at Eton for writing a book about his travels in Ireland, including his mistaken arrest ("They snatched a fearful Joynes") by the Irish authorities.
V. Of T. G.
Ode on a retrospect of Eton College.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Of Lord B.

VI. Of Lord B.
A Grievance.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Of A. H. C.

This A. H. Clough parody first appeared in The Etonian, 16 December 1875.
VII. Of A. H. C.
The Literary and Scientific Society.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Of W. S.

This Shakespeare parody was first published in the Eton Rambler, July 1880.
VIII. Of W. S.
For Greek Iambics.
# Illinois v. Michigan/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Per Curiam Opinion of the Court
[p36] PER CURIAM.
The State of Illinois moved to file its bill of complaint in this case on the theory that a "reciprocal treaty" between the States of Illinois and Michigan was violated by a decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan which allowed recovery by two injured workmen against an Illinois re-insurance company. Federoff v. Ewing, 386 Mich. 474, 192 N.W. 2d 242 (1971). It claims that such an agreement arose when the two States enacted the Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act, which contains certain reciprocal features, and that the agreement has the dignity of an interstate compact.
The State of Illinois was a party to the case decided by the Supreme Court of Michigan through the person of the Director of Insurance of the State of Illinois, who was the liquidator of the workmen's compensation insurer, Highway Insurance Co. It was the imposition of [p37] liability upon that company's re-insurer with Illinois claims was inappropriate under the uniform act. Review of the Michigan decision should have been sought in that case by means of a petition for writ of certiorari.
It is now too late for any such petition for certiorari to be filed. But original jurisdiction of the Court is not an alternative to the redress of grievances which could have been sought in the normal appellate process, if the remedy had been timely sought.
The problem presented is essentially one between private litigants and, though the point now raised may not have been presented in the Michigan litigation, these controversies are recurring and essentially not state concerns.
While the complaint on its face is within our original, as well as our exclusive, jurisdiction, it seems apparent from the moving papers and the response that Illinois, though nominally a party, is here "in the vindication of the grievances of particular individuals." Louisiana v. Texas, 176 U.S. 1, 16.
The motions to file briefs amici curiae by Jack Federoff, William F. Ewing, DBA William Ewing Roofing Co., and John H. Shannon are granted.
The motion of the State of Illinois for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied.

## Notes

* ↑ See generally Frankfurter & Landis, The Compact Clause of the Constitution—a Study in Interstate Adjustments, 34 Yale L.J. 685 (1925); Engdahl, Characterization of Interstate Arrangements: When is a Compact not a Compact?, 64 Mich. L. Rev. 63 (1965); Note, At the Intersection of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law, 59 Calif. L. Rev. 1514 (1971).
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To W. H.

To W. H.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/The Poet's Prayer

A roundel. First printed in The Cambridge Review, 4 June 1891, and then included as the first of "Two Roundels" in the third and subsequent editions of Lapsus Calami.
NOVI LAPSUS.
APRIL—JUNE, 1891.
DE LAPSIBUS PRIORIBUS.
TWO ROUNDELS.
i. The Poet's Prayer.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/On a Rhine Steamer

THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
I. ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
i. On a Rhine Steamer
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Parker's Piece, May 19, 1891

First published in The Cambridge Review, 21 May 1891. It was inspired by a tennis match played between George Lambert and James Harradine.
RESCUED FROM THE WASTE PAPER BASKET.
Parker's Piece, May 19, 1891.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/A Sonnet

* related authors: William Wordsworth
* sister projects: Wikidata item
A Wordsworth parody. First published in Granta, June 1891, and added to the third edition of Lapsus Calami.
A Sonnet.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To a Lady

Dated 27 June 1891. First published the third edition of Lapsus Calami.
To a Lady.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/June 19, 1891

First published in the third edition of Lapsus Calami.
June 19, 1891.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To A. H. C.

First published in the third edition of Lapsus Calami, "To A.H.C." was addressed to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough, Jr.
To A. H. C.
(In recollection of certain debates on the futility of Metaphysics.)
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To My Readers

First published in the third edition of Lapsus Calami
To My Readers.
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A., & SONS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 2/The Coffin of Snakes

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THE COFFIN OF SNAKES
NO one knew how it was that Lizon gained the love of Julienne, at L'Anse Creuse (near Detroit), for she was a girl of sweet and pious disposition, the daughter of a God-fearing farmer, while Lizon was a dark, ill-favored wretch, who had come among the people nobody knew whence, and lived on the profits of a tap-room where the vilest liquor was sold, and where gaming, fighting, and carousing were of nightly occurrence. Perhaps they were right in saying that it was witchcraft. He impudently laid siege to her heart, and when she showed signs of yielding he told her and her friends that he had no intention of marrying her, because he did not believe in religion.
Yet Julienne deserted her comfortable home and went to live with this disreputable scamp in his disreputable tavern, to the scandal of the community, and especially of the priest, who found Lizon's power for evil greater than his own for good, for as the tavern gained in hangers-on the church lost worshippers. One Sunday morning Julienne surprised the people by appearing in church and publicly asking pardon for her wrong-doing. It was the first time she had appeared there since her flight, and she was as one who had roused from a trance or fever- sleep. Her father gladly took her home again, and all went well until New-Year's eve, when the young men called d'Ignolee made the rounds of the ​settlement to sing and beg meat for the poor—a custom descended from the Druids. They came to the house of Julienne's father and received his welcome and his goods, but their song was interrupted by a cry of distress—Lizon was among the maskers, and Julienne was gone. A crowd of villagers ran to the cabaret and rescued the girl from the room into which the fellow had thrust her, but it was too late—she had lost her reason. Cursing and striking and blaspheming, Lizon was at last confronted by the priest, who told him he had gone too far; that he had been a plague to the people and an enemy to the church. He then pronounced against him the edict of excommunication, and told him that even in his grave he should not rest; that the church, abandoned by so many victims of his wiles and tyrannies, should be swept away.
The priest left the place forthwith, and the morals of the village fell lower and lower. Everything was against it, too. Blight and storm and insect pest ravaged the fields and orchards, as if nature had engaged to make an expression of the iniquity of the place. Suddenly death came upon Lizon. A pit was dug near his tavern and he was placed in a coffin, but as the box was lowered it was felt to grow lighter, while there poured from it a swarm of fat and filthy snakes. The fog that overspread the earth that morning seemed to blow by in human forms, the grave rolled like a wave after it had been covered, and after darkness fell a blue will-o'-the-wisp danced ​over it. A storm set in, heaping the billows on shore until the church was undermined, and with a crash it fell into the seething flood. But the curse had passed, and when a new chapel was built the old evils had deserted L'Anse Creuse.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 2/Lake Superior Water Gods

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LAKE SUPERIOR WATER GODS
HERE were many water gods about Lake Superior to whom the Indians paid homage, casting implements, ornaments, and tobacco into the water whenever they passed a spot where one of these manitous sat enthroned. At Thunder Cape, on the north shore, lies Manibozho, and in the pillared recess of La Chapelle, among the Pictured Rocks, dwelt powerful rulers of the storm to whose mercy the red men commended themselves with quaint rites whenever they were to set forth on a ​voyage over the great unsalted sea. At Le Grand Portal were hidden a horde of mischievous imps, among whose pranks was the repetition of every word spoken by the traveller as he rested on his oars beneath this mighty arch. The Chippewas worked the copper mines at Keweenaw Point before the white race had learned of a Western land, but they did so timidly, for they believed that a demon would visit with injury or death the rash mortal who should presume to pillage his treasure, unless he had first bestowed gifts upon him. Even then they went ashore with fear, lighted fires around a surface of native copper, hacked off a few pounds of the softened metal, and ran to their canoes without looking behind them.
There was another bad manitou at the mouth of Superior Bay, where conflicting currents make a pother of waters. This spirit sat on the bottom of the lake, gazing upward, and if any boatmen ventured to cross his domain without dropping a pipe or beads or hatchet into it, woe betide him, for his boat would be caught in a current and smashed against a rocky shore. Perhaps the most vexatious god was he who ruled the Floating Islands. These islands were beautiful with trees and flowers, metal shone and crystals sparkled on their ledges, sweet fruits grew in plenty, and song-birds flitted over them. In wonder and delight the hunter would speed toward them in his canoe, but as he neared their turfy banks the jealous manitou, who kept ​these fairy lands for his own pleasure, would throw down fog and shut them out of sight. Never could the hunter set foot on them, no matter how long he kept his search.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 2/The Witch of Pictured Rocks

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THE WITCH OF PICTURED ROCKS
ON the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior dwelt an Ojibway woman, a widow, was cared for by a relative. This relative was a hunter, the husband of an agreeable wife, the father of two bright children. Being of a mean and jealous nature, the widow begrudged every kindness that the hunter showed to his wife—the skins he brought for her clothing, the moose's lip or other dainty that he saved for her; and one day, in a pretence of fine good-nature, the old woman offered to give the younger a swing in a vine pendent from a tree that overhung the lake.
The wife accepted, and seating herself on the vine, was swayed to and fro, catching her breath, yet laughing as she swept out over the water. When the momentum was greatest the old woman cut the stem. A splash was heard—then all was silent. Returning to the lodge the hag disguised herself in a dress of the missing woman, and sitting in a shadow, pretended to nurse the infant of the household. The hunter, returning, was a little surprised that his wife should keep her face from him, and more surprised that the old woman did ​not appear for her share of the food that he had brought; but after their meal he took his little ones to the lake, to enjoy the evening breeze, when the elder burst into tears, declaring that the woman in the lodge was not his mother, and that he feared his own mother was dead or lost.
The hunter hurled his spear into the earth and prayed that, if his wife were dead, her body might be found, so he could mourn over it and give it burial. Instantly a bolt of lightning came from a passing cloud and shot into the lake, while the thunder-peal that followed shook the stones he stood on. It also disturbed the water and presently something was seen rising through it. The man stepped into a thicket and watched. In a few moments a gull arose from the lake and flew to the spot where the children were seated. Around its body was a leather belt, embroidered with beads and quills, which the hunter recognized, and, advancing softly, he caught the bird—that changed at once into the missing woman. The family set forth toward home, and as they entered the lodge the witch—for such she was—looked up, with a start, then uttered a cry of despair. Bending low, she moved her arms in both imprecation and appeal. A moment later a black, ungainly bird flew from the wigwam and passed from sight among the trees. The witch never came back to plague them.