"] CHAPTER XXI ~The Three Predecessors of Sâkyamuni~ Fifty li to the west of the city brings the traveller to a town named Too-wei, the birthplace of Kâsyapa Buddha.

For the imagination of officers, and of men in particular, is wonderful, and rumour has its birthplace in the hospital ward.

Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London in the reign of Edward VI., whose Northumbrian birthplace at Willimoteswick has already been noted, received his early education at the Grammar School in Newcastle, and on going to Cambridge was a student at Pembroke.

AYR (23), the county town of Ayrshire, at the mouth of a river of the same name, a clean, ancient town, its charter, granted by William the Lion, dating from 1200; well built, with elegant villas in the suburbs, a good harbour and docks for shipping; famous in early Scottish history, and doubly so among Scottish towns as the birthplace near it of Robert Burns.

A destiny, over which he had no seeming control, willed that he should yield to the grim reaper nearly three thousand miles from his birthplace on the sunny Nueces.

"He said that I swept the sky free of evil insects, that I was patriotic in coming back to my birthplace to nest, and that I worked to pay my rent and taxes, and" "And what?" cried the others in excitement.

He had a certificate, properly endorsed, giving his birthplace as Cincinnati.

Ordinarily he would not have gone that far away from his birthplace until his second year, and very possibly his third.

So pleased was he with them, that he returned to his western birthplace for his family, and brought them to Polynesia.

DARESBURY PARSONAGE, LEWIS CARROLL'S BIRTHPLACE From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.