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Sargues know no satiety of joy. No, not so much in 

 the roofed steadings of the herdsmen do the kids 

 exult about their mothers when they receive them 

 home from pasture with great and joyful welcome, 

 while all the place around rings with the glad cries 

 of the Uttle things, and the heart of the herdsmen 

 smiles, as those Sargues fuss about the horned herds. 

 And when these have had their fill of bathing in the 

 sea, and go back to their folds, then in sorrow do all 

 the Sarorues together attend them closelv to where 

 the laughter of the utmost wave skirts the land. As 

 when a sorrowing mother speeds her only son, or 

 wife her husband, on his journey to a foreign land 

 afar, and her heart is distraught within her : so wide 

 the waters of the sea that shall lie between, so many 

 the circles of the moons ; standing in the utmost 

 waves of the sea she utters from her lips tearful 

 words, praying him to haste ; and her feet carry her 

 no more eagerly homeward but she has her eyes 

 upon the sea ; even so the Sargues, one would say, 

 shed tears from their eyes, left desolate, when the 

 Goats are driven away. Poor Sargue ! anon me- 

 thinks thou shalt find thy companioning with the 

 herds of Goats a fatal passion. In such wise does 

 the wit of the fishermen turn thy love into a snare 

 and destruction. First ° of all a man marks those 

 rocks near the land which rise in twin peaks near 

 together with a narrow space of sea between and 



with a skin, and running about on all-fours, which they do 

 very nimbly, as appeared from the specimens of their skill 

 which they exhibited to us— making a kind of noise or 

 neighing at the same time ; and on these occasions the 

 masks, or carved heads, as well as the real dried heads of 

 the different animals, are put on." Another method used 

 by the Carians, Ael. xiii. "2. 



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