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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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rd; and they sat so thick on the tree that not a leaf could be seen, thenumber of them was so great; and they sang so merrily that it was a heavenly musicto hear. May this be the first faint image of those veritable Western Islands of the Canariesthat, afterward were to become solid facts upon the globe of knowledge of a later day ? At last we are introduced to the fearful adventure in which the two over-venture-some monks met their predicted fate. One day—but just why it occurred we are leftin the dark—the marvellous chronicle of these wonderful events tells that a host offoul fiends suddenly assailed the holy travellers, threatening the boats crew withred-hot hammers and hooks. The two monks, frightened by the hideous uproar andthe terrific stench, leaped overboard into the sea. There, not being protected by theholy influence that surrounded the boat, they met both death and perdition—a les-son to all such as hearken not to the warning of revelation. And so ends the narrative.
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Modjet Catty$ Who, asks Mr. Bridge, is Mother Carey, and where does she rear her chickens ? It is an axiom that one man may in a single phrase ask more than twenty mayanswer in as many volumes. Mr. Bridge, in speering the question, was very wellaware that Mother Carey had no existence in mythology nor in tradition, in legendnor in folk-lore; that she is only a vast disembodied Presence;—the possessor of aname, without identity. The title Mother Careys Chickens, one learned writer assures us, was givento the stormy petrel by Carterets sailors, in the eighteenth century—probablysome ideal hag of that name, he adds. Another writer opines that the name is acorruption of Mater Cara —one of the pseudonyms of the Virgin Mary. But neither explanation supplies the lost identity to that strange and mysticalbeing; nor does it satisfy the popular sense of a vast, intangible presence that fillsthe spaces of salt air and of limitless reaches of briny ocean. For one thing, indeed,is known of h

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