Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta

by Unknown

A FEATHER IN ONE’S CAP.

In the Lansdowne MS., British Museum, is a Description of Hungary in 1599, in which the writer says of the inhabitants, “It hath been an antient custom among them that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie y^t was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.”