Chapter Bards to Barnaby of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

and good temper to enter into the spirit of the joke without resentment, that he ordered in a real banquet, at which Schacabac was a welcome guest.—Arabian Nights (“The Barber’s Sixth Brother”).

Barnabas (St.), a disciple of Gamaliel, cousin of St. Mark, and fellow-labourer with St. Paul. He was martyred at Salamis, A.D. 63. St. Barnabas’ Day is June 11.—Acts iv. 36, 37.

Barnaby (Widow), the title and chief character of a novel by Mrs. Trollope (1839). The widow is a vulgar, pretentious husband-hunter, wholly without principle. Widow Barnaby has a sequel called The Barnabys in America, or The

Widow Married, a satire on America and the Americans (1840).