WALKING-STICK 
 
 
   Walking-Stick (Henry VIII.'s), the 
 great Danish club shown in the armory of 
 the Tower. 
 
   Walkingshaw (Miss), mistress of the 
 chevalier Charles Edward, the Young Pre- 
 tender.-Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, 
 George III.). 
 
   Wallace's Larder, the dungeon of 
 Ardrossan, in Ayrshire, where Wallace 
 had the dead bodies thrown when the gar- 
 rison was surprised by him in the reign of 
 Edward I. 
   "Douglas's Larder" is a similar phrase, 
 meaning that horrible compound of dead 
 bodies, barrels of flour, meal, wheat, malt, 
 wine, ale, and beer, all mixed together in 
 Douglas Castle, by the order of Lord 
 James Douglas, when, in 1306, the garri- 
 son was surprised by him. 
 
   Wallenrode (The earl of), an Hunga- 
 rian crusader.-Sir W. Scott, The Talisman 
* (time, Richard I.). 
 
   Wallenstein (Max), German baron 
 and general, eminent in the Thirty Years' 
 War. He was assassinated in 1634 by 
 order of Ferdinand II. of Germany.- 
 Schiller, Wallenstein (1799). 
 
   Waller, in love with Lydia, lady's-maid 
 to Widow Green. His love at first was 
 not honorable, because his aristocratic 
 pride revolted at the inferior social posi- 
 tion of Lydia; but when he knew her real 
 worth, he loved her, proposed marriage, 
 and found that she was the sister of True- 
 worth, who had taken service to avoid an 
 obnoxious marriage.--S. Knowles, The 
 Love-Chase (1837). 
 
 Waller's Plot, a plot organized in 
 
 
1643 by Waller, the poet, against the par- 
liamentary party.   The object was to 
secure the king's children, to seize the 
most eminent of the parliamentarians, to 
capture the Tower, and resist all taxes 
imposed for the support of the parliament- 
ary army. 
 
   Walley (Richard), the regicide, whose 
 story is told by Major Bridgenorth (a 
 roundhead) at his dinner-table.-Sir W. 
 Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles 
 I1.). 
 
   Walnut Web. When the three princes 
 of a certain king were sent to find out "a 
 web of cloth which would pass through 
 the eye of a fine needle," the White Cat 
 furnished the youngest of the three with 
 one spun by the cats of her palace. 
 The prince . . . took out of his box a walnut, 
 which he cracked . . . and saw a small hazel 
 nut, which he cracked also .. . and found there- 
 in a kernel of wax.... In this kernel of wax 
 was hidden a single grain of wheat, and in the 
 grain a small millet seed.... On opening the 
 millet, he drew out a web of cloth 400 yards long, 
 and in it was woven all sorts of birds, beasts, 
 and fishes; fruits and flowers; the sun, moon, 
 and stars; the portraits of kings and queens, 
 and many other wonderful degigns.-Comtesse 
 D'Aunoy, Fairy Tales (" The White Cat," 1682). 
 
 Walpurgis, saint who converted the 
 Saxons to Christianity. 
 
 Walpurgis Night. May 1, when 
 witches dance upon the Brocken in the 
 Hartz Mountains. 
 
 Walsingham, the affianced of Helen 
 Mowbray. Deceived by appearances, he 
 believed that Helen was the mistress of 
 Lord Athunree, and abandoned her; but 
 when he discovered his mistake he mar- 
ried her.-S. Knowles, Woman's Wit, etc. 
(183S). 
 
 
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