. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. AN EAKL S GLOVE OPENING A COUNTY FAIK. In the thirteenth century a powerful earl is saidto have delivered up a great tract of land to theKing of France by promising him the land andsending or giving his glove as pledge of good faith. In fact, now and then some stag-hunting lordwho, when a boy, had been fonder of war and thechase than of writing and reading, would flingdown his glove among the legal papers drawn upfor arranging some business matter, and say thatthat was his way of signing papers and giving his 406 CURIOU
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. AN EAKL S GLOVE OPENING A COUNTY FAIK. In the thirteenth century a powerful earl is saidto have delivered up a great tract of land to theKing of France by promising him the land andsending or giving his glove as pledge of good faith. In fact, now and then some stag-hunting lordwho, when a boy, had been fonder of war and thechase than of writing and reading, would flingdown his glove among the legal papers drawn upfor arranging some business matter, and say thatthat was his way of signing papers and giving his 406 CURIOUS STORIES FROM HISTORY. DULY SIGNED AND SEALED -BY A GLOVE. signature. The glove would be duly locked awaywith the papers, to show that the lord of the landhad agreed to the transaction. We still say throwing the gauntlet, meaninga challenge, even though we are only defying aschoolmate to spell us down in a course, the gauntlet is a big glove. The ex-pression is now all that is left of a very im-portant custom of the rough-and-ready age of which we have been speaking—the trial bycombat. For when a man of the medieval times con-sidered himself wronged in any way by a neigh-bor, he very often decided to attend to punishinghis enemy himself. He began matters by throw-ing down his glove before his enemy, if he had any spirit, neverallowed it to lie there, of course, forto do that was supposed to prove thatthe challenger was in the right andthat the other feared to put his fateto the touch. If a lady was in dis-tress, she asked some man friend tofight for her, which he was usuallyglad
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