. St. Nicholas [serial]. rrel, with thecomplimentary remark,Boil archer, bonnesflechcs (a good archerdeserves good arrows).The king and Tyrrelhad been hunting incompany, but chancedto be at some little dis-tance from one anotherwhen, toward sunset, astag appeared near theformer. He shot hisarrow, but the bow-string broke, and thearrow fell , Walter, shoot,even were it at thefiend! he cried. Tyr-rel shot, and the arrow,glancing from a tree,struck the king a mor-tal wound. He diedalmost instantly, in the act of drawing the shaftfrom his body. Tyrrel hastened to escape from the country
. St. Nicholas [serial]. rrel, with thecomplimentary remark,Boil archer, bonnesflechcs (a good archerdeserves good arrows).The king and Tyrrelhad been hunting incompany, but chancedto be at some little dis-tance from one anotherwhen, toward sunset, astag appeared near theformer. He shot hisarrow, but the bow-string broke, and thearrow fell , Walter, shoot,even were it at thefiend! he cried. Tyr-rel shot, and the arrow,glancing from a tree,struck the king a mor-tal wound. He diedalmost instantly, in the act of drawing the shaftfrom his body. Tyrrel hastened to escape from the country,while the others of the kings companions scat-tered,—his brother to Winchester, to secure thecrown and the treasure for himself. The bodywas left where it lay until it was found by acharcoal-burner—and by him taken in his cart to \Ainchester for burial. The man, Purkiss byname, received for his service an acre or two ofground. It is strange to learn, though it appearsto be a fact, that the lineal descendants of that. MONUMIiNT MARKING THE SIOT WHERE THE OAK blUOU THAISWERVED TVRRELs ARROW. Purkiss still live in the Forest, and it is said thatdown to a comparatively recent time one mightsee in their house the axletree of the very cartin which the Red Kings body was carried. In the year 1745 a monument was set up by anEnglish nobleman on the spot where, as said inthe inscription, he had himself seen growing theoak from which Tyrrels arrow made its fatal 170 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Dec, swerve. The stone having Ijecome defaced, asimilar pillar (shown in our picture) was placedthere in 1841, bearing the same inscription. But the New Forest to-day has more cheerfulassociations — in summer as one of the most de-lightful of English vacation-grounds, and inwinter as the place from which comes a greatpart of the holly that brightens lip the houses ofLondoners for Christmas. Both in density ofgrowth and in size and 1)eauty of individual trees.
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