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THE SWALLOW 



X 



^ ^-f- 



^ but an uninhabited waste. 

 ;:' Here, then, the strangers 

 found themselves in the cen- 

 ter of a vast barren plain where 

 there was neither food nor a 

 kindred people. When the cou- 

 riers had returned from 

 ^ the north, the swallows 

 ^""^ ■" visited the camp of the 

 newly arrived people, and 

 asked them why they 

 had sent out the 



■'» v'v couriers to the east. 



" We sent them 

 out," was the reply, 

 " to see what was 

 in the land, and to 

 see if there were 

 any people like our* 

 selves here." 

 "And what did your couriers tell you?" 

 asked the swallows. 



" They told us that they came to the edge 



