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our board. All wc could do, therefore, as it ^^y^- 
was brought with cheerfulness, was to receive ^ - y — ^ 
it thankfully ; and we took especial care that 
those from whom we obtained it should not 
go unrewarded. 
Scarcely had we reached the apartment 
prepared for our reception, when, looking from 
the window into the court-yard belonging 
to the house, we beheld two women grinding iUulSng 
at the mill, in a manner most forcibly illus- if^Jur^ 
trating the saying of our Saviour before s^^'o"'«* 
alluded to^ They were preparing flour to 
make our bread, as it is always customary 
in the country when strangers arrive. The 
two luomen, seated upon the ground, opyjosite 
to each other, held betvv'een them two round 
flat stones, such as are seen in Lapland, and 
such as in Scotland are called Querns. This 
was also mentioned in describing the mode of 
grinding corn in the villages of Cyprus ; but the 
circumstance is so interesting, (our Saviour's 
allusion actually referring to an existing custom 
in the place of his earliest residence,) that a 
little repetition may perhaps be pardoned. In 
the centre of the upper stone was a cavity for 
(2) See Chap. II. pp. 56, 57, of this volume. 
