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OMNIANA.
hanging down to their shoulders, which they are wont to use instead of napkins to wipe their greasy fingers." This expression, long felt locks, well describes what their appearance must have been. They are represented in the prints to the curious Description of Ireland by Derricke, which Walter Scott has inserted in his edition of the Somers Tracts.
187. Chess.
The King of Prussia and Marshal Keith played chess with soldiers,—the most innocent game they ever played with them. It had been done before them by Akber the Mogul. In a palace of his at Tuttahpoor his chess court is still shown, and the elevated seat from whence he directed the moves[1]. Mr Scott[2] describes Sir Gaheret's game with the Fairy, where
