. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. SHAMBLE OAK. storic oaks of Sherwood, especially such as are associated with laint stories and tragic histories. A. VACATIONS IN Procuring a guide, the Class went firsl to see Shamble (>ak. Thin! d1 it: in the main circuit it is thirty-four feet! It is called Shamble (>.ik because a butcher onceused its hollow trunk to COM i eal stolen sheep. I le washung on an ak. The guide next took the boys to a dreamy old placecalled Welbeck Park, to selthe Greendale Oak, supposedto be seven hundred years old]and which
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. SHAMBLE OAK. storic oaks of Sherwood, especially such as are associated with laint stories and tragic histories. A. VACATIONS IN Procuring a guide, the Class went firsl to see Shamble (>ak. Thin! d1 it: in the main circuit it is thirty-four feet! It is called Shamble (>.ik because a butcher onceused its hollow trunk to COM i eal stolen sheep. I le washung on an ak. The guide next took the boys to a dreamy old placecalled Welbeck Park, to selthe Greendale Oak, supposedto be seven hundred years old]and which lias a circumferenceof more than thirty-five feet I It looks as though it hacthe rheumatism, said Tommj•• With all of its crutches aii(i anes it will not live manyears longer. Do you thinkwill? I think it likely to onlive all of us, >aid the guidi More than one hundred an. L fifty years ago an arch w«cut in this tree, and a lotrode through it on his weding day. It very, veold then ; but the lord isand the oalc guide procured for the party a vehicle, and drove to PariOak, under which it is said that Edward I. held a Parlianjjin r 200. The tree still furnishes green boughs. Its girth is alxnty-nine fe I A CLOUDLESS DAY 12 ???- Newstead Abbey, the home of Lord Byron, forms a part of theold forest of Sherwood, and is but a short distance from was founded by Henry II.,and presents one of the pic-turesque and interesting ruinsin this part of England. You will not be allowedto visit the Abbey, said thesruide. The rooms of LordByron remain just as he leftthem ; his bedstead, with gildedcoronets, his pictures, portraitsof friends, writing-table, andall; but it is private property,and visitors are not allowed. The Abbey was built byHenry as one of the manypeace offerings which he madefor the murder of Thomas aBecket, said Master
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