_Showing the White Feather._--What is the origin of this periphrasis for
cowardice? Certainly not the words of King Henry:
"Press where ye see my white plume shine,
Amidst the ranks of war;
And be your Oriflamme to-day
The helmet of Navarre."
J. K.
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