originated, no doubt, theparochial practice of perambulating parishes with wands and staves,placed in the hands of beadles, who not unfrequently add the luxuryof beating the boys to the ceremony of beating the boundaries. Numa, though he had come to the throne, was fond of the retiredwalks of life,… … Numa Pompilius remembering the Grotto. inhabitant. Her name was Egeria, her profession that of a fortune-teller, which gave her such an influence over the superstitious mind ofNuma, that she ruled him with her divining rod as completely as if ithad been a rod of iron. He professed to act under the…
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