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which is not liable to the objection of clogging the pipes. By a small apparatus a stick of naphthaline is attached to the burner so as to be slowly vaporized. It is not yet in the hands of dealers in gas-fixtures.] [Footnote 4: Our narrative is drawn from the _Libra del Passo Honroso, defendido por el excelente caballero Suero de Quinones, copilado de un libro antiguo de mano por Fr. Juan de Pineda, Religiose de la orden de San Francisco. Segunda edicion_. Madrid, 1783, in the _Cronicas espanolas_, vol. v.] [Footnote 5: In modern French, _Il faut delivrer_--"It is necessary to release," referring to the chain worn by Quinones.] [Footnote 6: "If it does not please you to show moderation, I say, in truth, that I am unfortunate."] [Footnote 7: Prosper Merimee, in a note to his _History of Peter the Cruel_ (London, 1849, vol. i., p. 35), says, referring to the above episode, "I do not think that at that period an example of similar condescension could be found anywhere except in Spain. A century later the _chevalier sans peur et sans reproche_, the valiant Bayard, refused to mount a breach in company with lansquenets."] [Footnote 8: Beginning, "Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna," etc.] [Footnote 9: The Church as early as 1131 (Council of Rheims) endeavored to prevent these dangerous amusements by denying burial in consecrated ground with funeral rites to those who were killed in tournaments.] [Footnote 10: Puymaigre explains this almost total absence of Frenchmen by the fact that in 1434 the wars between Charles VII and the English were being waged. The English pilgrims to Santiago (the large number of whom we have previously mentioned) were probably non-combatants.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880., by Various *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE *** ***** This file should be named 16124.txt or 16124.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/1/2/16124/ Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can c
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