Hark to that jolly old missel-thrush below!

<pb id='120.png' /> MISSEL DES FIDELES ET OFFICE DIVIN. (No.119)

" Of the numerous stories connected with the origin of the mistletoe, one is noticed by Lord Bacon, to the effect that a certain bird, known as the "missel-bird," fed upon a particular kind of seed, which, through its incapacity to digest, it evacuated whole, whereupon the seed, falling on the boughs of trees, vegetated and produced the mistletoe.