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fhe led the flock into the flieep-fold, which flood 

 at one end of the houfe. TirleuSy in the mean 

 time, warmed water, and waQied the feet of his 

 guefts, after which, he invited them to walk in. 



Night was already advanced ; but a lamp, fuf- 

 pended from the cieling, and the blaze of the 

 hearth, which was placed, after the manner of the 

 Greeks, in the middle of the habitation, fufE- 

 ciently illuminated the interior of it. There were 

 feen, hanging round the walls, flutes, fliepherd's 

 crooks, fcrips, moulds for making cheefe ; baf- 

 kets of fruit, and earthen pans full of milk, ftood 

 upon flielves faftened to the joifts. Over the door 

 by which they had entered, there was a fmall fl:a- 

 tue of the good Ceres, and over that of the fheep- 

 fold, the figure of the God Pan, formed from a, 

 root of an olive-tree. 



As foon as the ftrangers were introduced, Cya~ 

 nea covered the table, and ferved up cabbages 

 with bacon, fome wheaten bread, a pot filled with 

 wine, a cream cheefe, frefii eggSj and fome of the 

 fécond figs of the year, white and violet- coloured. 

 She placed by^ the board four feats, made of oak 

 wood. She covered that of her father with the 

 ikin of a wolf, which he himfelf had killed in 

 hunting. Afterwards, having afcended to the 

 upper (lory, flie returned again, with the fleeces 



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