It is unnecessary to carry the questioning any further. Anyone who reads the stories will find an infinity of questions suggesting themselves to him, and he will doubtless get no little pleasure and profit from attempting to answer them. As will be seen, some of the questions are not simple. If Swift has been wise he has not reduced everything arbitrarily on a horizontal scale to one-twelfth of its apparent size, capacity, weight, or strength, but has properly apportioned all. The reader may find that he will be called upon for some nice discrimination, before he can judge correctly as to the accuracy with which Swift has used his scale of reduction. _The Heart of Bruce_ (Volume V, page 316) 1. What is meant by "frost lay hoar"? "Hoar" means "white" or "gray." (It was early in the morning before the sun had melted the frost.) 2. What kind of armour did they wear? What kind of "ships" rode in the bay? (Remember this happened about six hundred years ago.) 3. What caused the foam that was swept away? Why did they gaze back in silence? 4. Why does the poet call them _purple_ hues, and why does he say they decayed? (Recall the lines: "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and clothes the mountain in its azure hue." Did you ever notice the purple on distant hills? What causes it?) 5. What is the "battle-van"? (The front rank.) 6. What is a "freit"? (A superstitious notion or an omen as to right or wrong. Lord Douglas felt a superstitious dread, a chill of foreboding.) 7. What did Robert say on his dying day? 8. What did Robert want his followers to do with his heart? 9. Who dreamed this dream? What was a Pilgrim? (A pilgrim is a wanderer. We think first of the Puritan fathers when we speak of Pilgrims, but the Pilgrim who appeared to Lord Douglas was a palmer who showed by his garb and his olive branch that he had been to the Holy Land.) See picture, page 319. 10. What kind of a Cross did Saint Andrew bear? Who was Saint Andrew? (Saint Andrew was one of the twelve apostles, and is believed to have suffered martyrdom on a cross shaped something like the letter X, that is, one made of two beams of equal length crossing in the middle at an angle.) 11. What is a "belted brand"? (A sword fastened to a belt.) 12. What was "Galilee"? What was the "Holy Mount" and why was it so called? 13. What is "Scotland's heart"? (The heart of Robert Bruce, so called because of the reverence in which he is held by the Scotch.) Where can you read about the great angel that calls the dead to rise? 14. What is meant by "mark my rede"? (Listen to my advice or counsel.) 15. What was the prediction the Pilgrim seemed to make to Lord Douglas? What did Lord Douglas ask of Sir Simon of the Lee? 16. Why should Scotland's earth be called "kindly"? 17. What does "betide" mean? Tell in your own words what Sir Simon replied. ("Whatever happens to me, I'll do as you command.") 18. What does Sir Simon promise?