Stories of persons and places in Europe . LOCH LOMOND. that tlie man who had seizedhis leg was thrown under thehorse, another blow of his pow-erful sword felled this secondassailant just as the thirdgrasped him by the mantle andheld him so close that he conldnot use his long sword. Buta heavy hammer hung at hissaddle bow and with this hestruck his last enemy a deathblow. The dying man, how-ever, did not loose his clasp onBruces mantle, and not beingable to wrench it away, Bruce undid the clasp and rodeoff without it to this cave, where he passed the night. 170 Persons and Places in Europe. The
Stories of persons and places in Europe . LOCH LOMOND. that tlie man who had seizedhis leg was thrown under thehorse, another blow of his pow-erful sword felled this secondassailant just as the thirdgrasped him by the mantle andheld him so close that he conldnot use his long sword. Buta heavy hammer hung at hissaddle bow and with this hestruck his last enemy a deathblow. The dying man, how-ever, did not loose his clasp onBruces mantle, and not beingable to wrench it away, Bruce undid the clasp and rodeoff without it to this cave, where he passed the night. 170 Persons and Places in Europe. The descendants of the house of Lorn always kept this mantle as a tro~;phy, showing how nearly Robert Bruce came to being captured by theirancestors. Ellens Isle.—It is doubtful if Sir Walter Scott imagined when writ-ing The Lady of the Lake that hundreds of people would go over thescene of his poem, guide book in hand, tracing out the very spots over whichhe took his characters. So real has he made all his story seem, that thesides of Be
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