Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-14
BRITISH WOMAN SAYS
SHE HAS HEARD CRIES
OFFAMOUS HUNT PACK

LONDON, Nov 13. P-The ghostly
( sounds of Herne, the hunter men
| toned by Shakespeare in the Merry
Wives of Windsor, have been heard"
| by the wife and daughter of Walter
lLegge, of Farmhouse, old Windsor.
| Mrs. Legges declares that on two
occasions she heard the clock or
! old Windsor tower chime the mid
night hour and Immediately after
ward the sound of bayng hounds,
as if of a pack in full cry.
| On the second occasion her daugh-
ter came into her room, she says, and
asked: "Did you hear them? They
must have been Herne the hunters
hounds" Mrs. Legge asserts that dur
ing the many years she has lived at
Old Windsor she had never heard. the
sounds before. s.-es
Tradition has it that Herne the
hunter was keeper in Windsor forest
in the days of Queen Elizabeth. Ifav-
ing been disgraced he hanged him
self to an oak. Hefnes oak, sad
to have been 900 years old, was blown
Gown August 81, 1868, and a young
oak was planted on the spot by
Queen Victoria on September u, 1863
Nero not only played a fiddle but
he also was a player of the bagpipes,
an instrument illustrating very an
! cient use of compressed ar, declared
! William Reavall in his presidential
address to the institution OF mechani-
cal engineers. The subject was "com-
pressed air." Besides Neros bag
pipes, Mr.. Reavall said organs with
piston bellows were described by vi
truvious and Nero, while such in
struments were also known to Archi-
medes and Plato.
The speaker also described how, be-
fore those periods, the Egyptian
priests made use of compressed air
to work miracles" in their temples.
The prince of Wales has lost some
of his fondness for horseback riding
and of late has fallen under the subtlo ol
fascination of golf.
The prince, as a beginner, is fonG
Iof joking about his game. He admits
he cannot play golf as well as he
can do the Charleston. He estimates
that on any average he loses six
balls a day. He loves to hit at the
ball, and has yet to keep his drives
under control.
AT Sunningdale the prince, after
one round, enjoyed a 2O-minute light
luncheon and was on the tee again
Wales friends are fond of pointing
cut the fact that the heir to the
throne never permits himself to hola
up couples while hef and HIS caddy
search for a. ball hS has planted IN
the rough.
George Bernard Shaw's name which
gTared in letters two feet high IN
front of one of London's largest
music halls showing one of his plays.
has been reduced in size at the auth |
cr's request. The letters now are
smaller than those of the stars ac-
tually appearing there
The play is "The Showing JJp of |
Blanco Posnet." 1t is being acted |
by Sir John and Lady Martin Harvey |
and a company of 80. For years |
the lord chamberlain banned this
story of horse thief on the ground :
that it was blasphemous. However,
after Drawing the derision of cultured
play goers, he relented.
Mr.. Shaw suggested that his namo
had been displayed so prominently
that his friends might get the I'M
preston that he himself was appear
ing at the music hall, when, as a
matter of fact he Mas noc able to
find time to catch up with his writ
ings.
Estelle Stead, daughter of the late
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