. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . dissatisfaction to resentment, and he slew the king. He oncehad a dream, which he deemed remarkable, in which three old women met himand hailed him as thane of Cromarty, thane of Moray, and finally as this light basis genius has built one of the most powerful tales of super-stition in the language. Duncan was slain near Elgin, and not in the castle of Inverness. Malcolmavenged his fathers death, slaying Macbeth at a place called Lumphanan, andnot at Dunsinane, as recorded in the play. And then Sir Walter Scott finds that
. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . dissatisfaction to resentment, and he slew the king. He oncehad a dream, which he deemed remarkable, in which three old women met himand hailed him as thane of Cromarty, thane of Moray, and finally as this light basis genius has built one of the most powerful tales of super-stition in the language. Duncan was slain near Elgin, and not in the castle of Inverness. Malcolmavenged his fathers death, slaying Macbeth at a place called Lumphanan, andnot at Dunsinane, as recorded in the play. And then Sir Walter Scott finds that Banquo and his son Fleance neverhad any real existence, which leaves no material out of which to construct aghost. So there were no witches, after all ? said Charlie. No; no witches. GHOST STORIES. No Banquo ? No Banquo. No ghost ? No ghost. Banquo never lived. Is that all ? asked Grandmother Golden. That is all. 39 CHAPTER III. A STORY-TELLING JOURNEY. The Club Reorganized. — The Rhine and the Lands of the Baltic.—TommyTobys Story of the Six Boy T the first formal meeting of the Club Charlie Le-land was chosen President. He was the intellectualleader among the boys, now that the old Class hadgone; he was a lad of good principles, bright, gen-erous, and popular. As may be judged from thesomewhat discursive dialogue on the piazza, hehad a subject well matured in his mind for the literary exercises of theClub. We all like stories, he said, and the Rhine lands are regions ofstories, as are the countries of the Baltic Sea. The tales and tradi-tions of the Rhine would give us a large knowledge of German history,and, in fact, of the great empire of Europe, over which Charlemagneruled, and which now is divided into the kingdoms of NorthernEurope. The stories of haunted castles, spectres, water nymphs, syl-van deities, and fairies, if shapes of fancy, are full of instruction, andI know of no subject so likely to prove intensely interesting as theRhine and the Baltic; and I
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