Bridgewater.
_The Elder Tree._--I was visiting a poor parishioner the other day, when
the following question was put to me.
"Pray, Sir, can you tell me whether there is any doubt of what kind of wood
our Lord's cross was made? I have always heard that it was made of _elder_,
and we look carefully into the faggots before we burn them, for fear that
there should be any of this wood in them."
My Query is, Whether this is a common superstition?