The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 33 prowess in wrestling, throwing the stone, fighting with the caestus, lifting great weights, and in the tourna­ ment ; and the deeds recorded of them could not be approached by men of our time. The "Chroniques de SaintDenis" bear testimony to the wonderful strength of Charlemagne; he once cleaved a warrior in two with one blow of his sword, and could carry a heavily armed man with one hand. Again, the valiant knight Renard, towards the end of his career, became a chevalier mason, and carried on his back all the enormous blocks of stone required to build the Sainte Eglise at Cologne. In the days of the tournament, numerous stories of the great strength displayed by knights and others have been handed down to us. One recites a certain German knight whowould test his power by putting hisarms, whilst on horseback, round the branch of a tree a foot in diameter, would urge his horse forward, and never lost his seat, nor failed to break the limb from its parent tree. A story is related of a man, Ervaltan of Spayne, who, hearing the Earl of Foix complain that a fire in a dining-room was not large enough, went into the courtyard below, where several asses laden with wood were standing, and having selected the largest animal and collected all the wood, placed this heavy burden on his shoulders, carried it up a stair­ case and through a gallery, and then cast donkey and wood on the fire, to the delight of the Earl of Foix. Could any man of the present day perform such a feat ? A giant might, if the Society for the Prevention d