IN LEGEND AND HISTORY 



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these olives oil is made for the many lamps 

 which adorn the shrine and which burn there 

 day and night. 



We should scarcely expect to find the 

 swallow playing a part in the serious annals 



ancient bor- 

 between the 

 legend is 

 discover our 

 country to 



of the world. But in that 

 derland of history, midway 

 true and the fabled, where 

 confused with fact, there we 

 bird flitting about from 

 country. Here, she 

 is saving the life of a 

 famous general 

 — there, sending "^ 

 another to tardy 

 justice, and more 

 than once, by 

 her timely warn- 

 ing, deciding the 

 fate of nations. 



Even so great a historian as the Greek 

 Xenophon tells us that just before King Cy- 

 rus set out to fight the Scythians, some swal- 



