CARPIL’LONA (Princess), the daughter of Subli’mus king of the Peaceable Islands.  Sublimus, being dethroned by a usurper, was with his wife, child, and a foundling boy thrown into a dungeon, and kept there for three years.  The four captives then contrived to escape; but the rope which held the basket in which Carpillona was let down snapped asunder, and she fell into the lake.  Sublimus and the other two lived in retirement as a shepherd family, and Carpillona, being rescued by a fisherman, was brought up by him as his daughter.  When the “Humpbacked” Prince dethroned the usurper of the Peaceable Islands, Carpillona was one of the captives, and the “Humpbacked” Prince wanted to make her his wife; but she fled in disguise, and came to the cottage home of Sublimus, where she fell in love with his foster-son, who proved to be half-brother of the “Humpbacked” Prince.  Ultimately, Carpillona married the foundling, and each succeeded to a kingdom.—­Comtesse D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales ("Princess Carpillona,” 1682).

CAR’PIO (Bernardo del), natural son of don Sancho, and dona Ximena, surnamed “The Chaste.”  It was Bernardo del Carpio who slew Roland at Roncesvalles (4 syl.).  In Spanish romance he is a very conspicuous figure.

CARRAS’CO (Samson), son of Bartholomew Carrasco.  He is a licentiate of much natural humor, who flatters don Quixote, and persuades him to undertake a second tour.

CARRIER (Martha), a Salem goodwife, tried and executed for witchcraft.  To Rev. Cotton Mather’s narrative of her crimes and punishment is appended this memorandum: 

This rampant hag, Martha Carrier, was the person of whom the confessions of the witches, and of her own children among the rest, agreed that the devil had promised her she should be Queen of Hell.—­Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693).

CARRIL, the gray-headed, son of Kinfe’na bard of Cuthullin, general of the Irish tribes.—­Ossian, Fingal.

CARRLLLO (Fray) was never to be found in his own cell, according to a famous Spanish epigram.

Like Fray Carillo, the only place in which one cannot find him Is his own cell.

Longfellow, The Spanish Student, i. 5.

CAR’ROL, deputy usher at Kenilworth Castle.—­Sir W. Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

CAR’STONE (Richard), cousin of Ada Clare, both being wards in Chancery interested in the great suit of “Jarndyce v.  Jarndyce.”  Richard Carstone is a “handsome youth, about nineteen, of ingenuous face, and with a most engaging laugh.”  He marries his cousin Ada, and lives in hope that the suit will soon terminate and make him rich.  In the meantime he tries to make two ends meet, first by the profession of medicine, then by that of law, then by the army; but the rolling stone gathers no moss, and the poor fellow dies of the sickness of hope deferred.—­C.  Dickens, Bleak House (1853).