"stone Of Scone."

It is a. long walk from the dinlng room of the Westminster school to the coronation chair, which stands behlnd the okl stone screen, just hack of the altar in the abbey, but there ie an interesting connection between the two. The chair, as is well known, is a rude, heavy oak chair, much worn by time. It contains tho "Stone of Scone," and was made by the order of Edward I-, in 1297, and every Bnglish soveretgn since then has sat in it to be erowned. , A stout railing in front oL the chair restrains the crowd of visitors from coming near, but if they were allow; ed to examine it as closely as I wag fortúnate enough to do, they would find cut boldly into the solid oak seat, in such sprawling letters as the schoolboy's knife makes upon hls desk, "P. Abbott slept in tuis chair January 4, 1801." P. Abbott, it seems, was a Westminster school boy, and a tradition, which there is every reason to believe is true, tells that he made a wager wíth a sohoolmate that he dare etay in the ebbey all night alone. In order to win bis wager he hid in some corner of the old building untü tho I doors were locked for the night and i thus was left alone there. Fearing, however, that when morning came the boy with whom he had made the bet would disbelieve his statement that he had won it, he determined to havo some proof of the fact, and so spent the houre of the early morning in carving on tho coronation chair the sentence which, even now, nearly a century after, beare wltness for him. It is dis! appointing that the tradition does not j record Just what form and amount oí I punishment was visited upon the lad ! for his escapade, and that history does not teil ua of his later years. I wonder whether the courage and grit which this deed manifested foretold an ! nergetic successful life, or was pated in mere