1. Polycrătês, being too fortunate, was advised to cast away something he most highly prized, and threw into the sea an engraved gem of great value. A few days afterwards a fish came to his table, and in it was this very gem.—_Herodotus_, iii. 40. 2. A certain queen, having formed an illicit attachment to a soldier, gave him a ring which had been the present of her husband. The king, being apprised thereof, got possession of the ring while the soldier was asleep, threw it into the sea, and then asked his queen to bring it him. In great alarm, she went to St. Kentigern and told him everything. The saint went to the Clyde, caught a salmon with the ring in its mouth, and gave it to the queen, who thus saved her character and her husband. This legend is told about the Glasgow arms. 3. The arms of dame Rebecca Berry, wife of Sir Thomas Elton, Stratford-le-Bow, to be seen at St. Dunstan’s Church, Stepney. The tale is that a knight, hearing the cries of a woman in labor, knew that the infant was destined to become his wife. He tried to elude his destiny, and, when the infant had grown to womanhood, threw a _ring_ into the sea, commanding the damsel never to see his face again till she could produce the ring which he had cast away. In a few days a _cod-fish_ was caught, and the ring was found in its mouth. The young woman producing the ring, the marriage was duly solemnized.—_Romance of London_. =Fisher= (_Ralph_), assistant of Roland Græme, at Avenel Castle.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth). _Fishers_ (_The_). Grandpa and Grandma Fisher live with daughter-in-law and two grandchildren in “The Ark” at Cedar-swamp. Grandpa is a retired sea-captain with a talent for tedious stories and a temper that is occasionally frayed. Grandma’s face has, “besides large physical proportions, generosity, whole-heartedness and a world of sympathy.” Both sleep in church, but grandma wakes up first, and arouses her husband with an adroit pin. He starts and looks guilty. She “opens her eyes at regular intervals,” as though she had merely been closing them to engage in a few moments of silent prayer.—Sally Pratt McLean Green, _Cape Cod Folks_ (1881). =Fitz-Boo´dle= (_George_), a pseudonym assumed by Thackeray in _Frazer’s Magazine_ (1811-1863). =Fitz-Fulke= (_Hebe, duchess of_), a “gracious graceful, graceless grace” (canto xvi. 49), staying with Lord and Lady Amundeville (4 _syl._), while Don Juan “the Russian envoy” was their guest. Don Juan fancied he saw in the night the apparition of a monk, which produced such an effect on his looks and behavior as to excite attention. When the cause of his peturbation was known, Lady Adeline sang to him a tale purporting to explain the apparition; but “her frolic grace” at night personated the ghost to carry on the joke. She was, however, discovered by Don Juan, who was resolved to penetrate the mystery. With this discovery the sixteenth and last book of _Don Juan_ ends.—Byron, _Don Juan_ (1824).