the other for the rising generation who are to
succeed them. The people of Berne are much
concerned about their pets, and the death of a
"Mutz," or the augmentation of the family, is
an event of the deepest interest to the whole
city. A bear has been known to live forty-seven
years in confinement here, and another to
bring forth young after thirty years of age.

Both in Switzerland and in Bavaria there are
a number of other places which derive their name
from our friend Grandfather Blacktooth, but he
is to be found in the former country only in the
Engadine, and has, since the beginning of the
century, utterly disappeared from the latter,
which once swarmed with his family. In the
Tyrol the bear still lurks on the flanks of the
Ortler, near Gogmagog, in theUpper Vintschgau,
and in other secluded parts, and descended a few
years back even to the vineyards of Meran. The
Carpathians are also the haunt of another
remnant of the race, which, however, there, as
elsewhere in Europe, is rapidly declining. Old
Blacktooth will soon be a mere memory of the
past, and exist only as a stuffed specimen in
museums.

ODD ARMS.

IF the moon is the deadest of all created
things, the art and science of heraldry is surely
the deadest of all the human circle. Still, how
some of the arms known in the Heralds' College
came to be borne, is interesting when illustrative
of history, or setting forth the manners of an
epoch. Thus, why the four families of Delves,
Mackworth, Hawkestone, and Foulthurst, all
bore, or bear, the same charge on their coat
armour, and why that charge is the same as the
famous Lord Audley's, is a pretty little knightly
anecdote, not known to every one; though told
in Froissart's best manner. After the battle of
Poitiers, wherein Lord Audley so greatly
distinguished himself, and was so grievously
wounded, the Black Prince solemnly bestowed
on him the gift of five hundred marks yearly from
his own private revenue: a sum which at that
time made a handsome addition to even a lord's
possessions. But Lord Audley, mindful of the
four squires who had followed him through the
thickest of the fight, divided the prince's gift
among them, adding the greater grace of leave
to quarter his arms with their own, with such
difference as should distinguish them. Wherefore,
in the coats of all these gentlemen and their
descendants, we find somewhere—either at the top,
or in the middle, or at the bottom of the shield—
"Gules, fretty or;" which, in English, is a red
ground cross-barred with gold. To end the story
in the good old knightly style:—not to be outdone
in generosity, when the Black Prince heard what
Lord Audley had done, he gave him a further
grant of six hundred marks yearly to be paid
out of his Cornish revenues. The "Pelham
buckle," so well known in East Sussex, was the
badge granted to Sir John de Pelham after the
same battle. He and Sir Roger la Warr were
mainly instrumental in the capture of the French
king; so Pelham took the buckle of his sword-belt
for his cognisance, adding to it a cage—and
a knighthood—and Sir Roger la Warr took the
crampet, or chape of the sword for his device.
The De la Beres have "a ducal coronet or,
therefrom issuant a plume of five ostrich feathers
per pale argent and azure," a coat given to Sir
Richard De la Bere, knight banneret, by Edward
the Black Prince, for rescuing him at Creçy from
a great danger. It was at this same battle that
Edward himself assumed the ostrich feathers
and the coronet, and the modest motto, "Ich
Dien," as he and all subsequent Princes of
Wales have borne them, in commemoration of
his capture of John of Bohemia.

Sir Christopher Seton, ancestor of the Earls
of Wintoun, rescued Robert Bruce from the
English at the battle of Methven, 1306. For
this the king gave him his sister, the Lady
Christian, in marriage; and, among other
charges, a sword supporting a falling crown
within a double tressure. Robert's heart went
out to Jerusalem, as we all know, under the care
of Sir James Douglas, who was killed by the
way. The Douglas family thereupon took as
their coat of arms a human heart royally crowned,
on a field of silver.

The supporters of the Earl of Errol are two
husbandmen, carrying an ox yoke. In 980,
when the Danes invaded the island, there was
an engagement at Longcarty, near Perth, in
which Kenneth the Third was routed. John de
Luz and his sons were ploughing in a field hard
by. Seeing the Scots flee, John and his sons
put themselves in a narrow pass, and stopped
them with the ox gear, bidding them turn back
for a parcel of loons and cowards. They did
so; and the Danes, thinking it a reinforcement,
took fright and yielded. Kenneth gave John
de Luz as much land in Gowrie as a falcon,
flying from his wrist, should measure before it
perched. Hence the crest of the family now
representing the old ploughman—a falcon rising
—and the two husbandmen for supporters. The
Earls of Kinnoul, a younger branch, allude to
the same incident in their motto, "Renovate
animo." Keith, Earl Marischal, bears "azure
on a chief or, three pallets gules." An ancestor
of the Keiths proved himself a more than
ordinarily brave warrior in a battle near Dundee,
when Camus, the Danish general, was killed.
Kenneth—the friend of the De Luz—charmed
with his valour, dipped his fingers in the blood
of the Dane, and drew three stripes, or pallets,
on the top of the shield: hence the arms.

Jane Lane, of Staffordshire, saved the life of
Charles the Second by her wit and courage.
Her family took as their crest, in perpetual
memory of that fateful ride, "a demi- horse
salient argent, spotted dark grey, sustaining
with his forefeet a royal crown." Penderell
too, and Careless—or Carlos, as Charles would
always call him afterwards—did him good service
at the oak of Boscobel: and Charles gave them
both, as an augmentation of their arms, an
oak-tree and three royal crowns, with a difference.