According to a Russian belief the elder-tree drives away evil spirits, and hence this plant is held in high respect.

[Illustration: ELDER-BERRIES.

" Sun, developing his hidden traps, continued: "If your honorable father is not placable, where will my Elder-Brother shelter the Beauty whom he has carried away?

When one walks on those grey roads at evening by the scented elder-bushes of the white cottages, watching the faint mountains gathering the clouds upon their heads, one all too readily discovers, beyond the thin cobweb veil of the senses, those creatures, the goblins, hurrying from the white square stone door to the north, or from the Heart Lake in the south.

Nor pestilence nor wasting eld approach that hallowed race: they toil not neither do they fight, and dwell unharmed of cruel Nemesis.

" Then slept she light and heedfully across the frozen snow, And plucked a bunch of elder-twigs that near a pool did grow:

But here, in Dreamland's centre, No spoiler's hand may enter, These visions fair, this radiance rare, Shall never pass away I see the shadows falling, The forms of eld recalling; Around me tread the mighty dead, And slowly pass away One of the best services to education which Mr. Dodgson performed was his edition of "Euclid I. and II.," which was published in 1882.

Then the apparatus is grasped by the support, F, and an elder-pith ball suspended by a flaxen thread from a good conducting support is brought near J.

They told me Pan was dead, but I Oft marvelled who it was that sang Down the green valleys languidly Where the grey elder-thickets hang.