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Callais, Turquois

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CALLAIS AND CALLAINA.                            67
had hired to show me the way points out a footpath by the ride of the high road, which I take, and ride on some time in the dark. Suddenly my horse stands still, and will not move a step. I call my guide : he says there is a well in the way, and that I must go back, the path being very narrow. In turning my horse he stumbles, and puts his left foot outside the path, towards the high road. Imme­diately 1 feel myself falling, I throw myself out of the saddle upon the road, which was at least ten ells lower down than the path. I fall on my side, and my horse on his back close to me. The guide, not hearing me cry out or speak, thought me crushed to death by the horse ; but I was safe and sound, had suffered no harm at all, get on my steed, and pursue my journey. But next morning, as I was washing my hands, I found my Turquois split, and about a quarter of its substance separated from the rest. I there­fore got the larger portion of the stone reset, and continued to wear it some years. One day in attempting to lift out of a river, with a long pike, a weight beyond my strength, suddenly the bones of my chest cracked as though a rib were broken, and I felt a dull pain in the side. Thinking something was fractured, I examined, and discovered that the lowest rib was displaced, and its end pushed under the last but one. As the pain was slight, I applied no remedy to the part affected ; but the same day, to my surprise, I see my Turquois again broken in two, the smaller portion, however, being no bigger than a hempseed ; but lest it should drop out, I had the larger portion, retaining nearly all my arms, set in another ring, which I still wear con­stantly."
'With, the Germans it is yet the gem appropriated to the ring, the "gage d'amour," presented by the lover on the acceptance of his suit, the permanence of its colour being believed to depend upon the constancy of his affection.
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