The Tartar story makes the mysterious Piper a foal which courses round the world, and with our _pony_ may be connoted _tarpon_, the Tartar word for the wild horse of the Asiatic steppes. _Cano_ is the Latin for _I sing_, and on Figs. 152 and 153 the Great Enchantress or Incantatrice is represented with the Pipes of Pan: among the wonders in the land of Hamelyn's Piper were horses with eagles' wings and these, together with the celestial foal and other elphin marvels, are to be found depicted on the tokens of prehistoric Albion. The tale of the Pied Piper may be connoted with the emblem of Ogmius leading his tongue-tied willing captives, and in Fig. 158 the mighty Muse is playing in human form upon his lute. In Fig. 160 the story of St. Michael or St. George is being played by a Pegasus, and in Fig. 158 CUNO is represented as a radiant elf. The arrow on Fig. 163 connects the exquisitely executed little figure with Cupid, Eros, or Amor--the oldest of the Gods--and probably this particular cherub was known as Puck, for his coin was issued in the Channel Islands by a people who inscribed their tokens _Pooc_tika, _Buc_ato, _Pix_til, and _Pich_til, _i.e._, _Pich tall_ or _chief_(?). [Illustration: FIGS. 151 to 158.--British. No. 151 from Whitaker's _Manchester_. No. 152 from Evans. Nos. 153 to 157 from Akerman. No. 158 from _A New Description of England and Wales_.] [Illustration: FIGS. 159 to 163.--Channel Islands. From Akerman.] [Illustration: FIGS. 164 to 167.--British. From Akerman.] It is not improbable that this young sprig was known as the Little Leaf Man, for in Thuringia as soon as the trees began to bud out, the children used to assemble on a Sunday and dress one of their playmates with shoots and sprigs: he was covered so thoroughly as to be rendered blind, whereupon two of his companions, taking him by the hand lest he should stumble, led him dancing and singing from home to home. Amor, like Homer, was reputed blind, and the what-nots on Fig. 167 may possibly be _leaves_, the symbols of the _living, loving Elf_, or _Life_--"this senior-junior, giant-dwarf Dan Cupid". It was practically a universal pagan custom to celebrate the return of Spring by carrying away and destroying a rude idol of the old Dad or Death:-- Now carry we Death out of the village, The new Summer into the village, Welcome, dear Summer, Green little corn. [Illustration: FIG. 168.--From _The Everyday Book_ (Hone, W.).] In other parts of Bohemia--and the curious reader will find several Bohemias on the Ordnance maps of England--the song varies; it is not Summer that comes back but Life:-- We have carried away Death, And brought back Life.[322]