h we find the same singular
combination of circumstances. A certain queen of the district
one day gave her paramour a golden ring which the king her
husband had committed to her charge as a keepsake. By some means
or other the king got to know of the whereabouts of the ring,
and cleverly contriving to secure possession of it, threw it
into the sea. He then went straight to the queen and demanded to
know where it was and what she had done with it. The queen in
her distress repaired to St. Kentigern, and both made full
confession of her guilt and her anxiety about the recovery of
the ring, that she might regain the lost favor of her husband.
The saint set off at once to the Clyde, and there caught a
salmon and the identical ring in the mouth of it. This he handed
over to the queen, who returned it to her lord with such
expressions of penitence that the restoration of it became the
bond and pledge between them of a higher and holier wedlock.

There were thirteen horn-shaped collecting-boxes, and thirteen tables,
and thirteen devotional bowings in the Temple service. Those who
belonged to the houses of Rabbi Gamliel and of Rabbi Chananiah, the
president of the priests, bowed fourteen times. This extra act of bowing
was directed to the quarter of the wood store, in consequence of a
tradition they inherited from their ancestors that the Ark of the
Covenant was hidden in that locality. The origin of the tradition was
this:--A priest, being once engaged near the wood store, and observing
that part of the plaster differed from the rest, went to tell his
companions, but died before he had time to relate his discovery. Thus it
became known for certain that the Ark was hidden there.

_Shekalim_ chap. 3, hal, 1.

It is more than probable that the Chananiah, mentioned above, is
the person alluded to in the Acts, chap, xxiii. 2, as "the high
priest Ananias." For the tradition about the Ark. see also 2
Macc. ii. 4, 5.

There were thirteen horn-shaped collecting-boxes in the Temple, and upon
them were inscribed new shekels, old shekels, turtle-dove offerings,
young-pigeon offerings, fire-wood, contributions for Galbanus, gold for
the mercy-seat; and six boxes were inscribed for voluntary
contributions. New shekels were for the current year, old shekels were
for the past one.

_Yoma_, fol. 55, col, 2.

Once on account of long-continued drought Rabbi Eliez