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could do to please them most? what gift, 
worthy of the gods to bestow, they would 
demand 4 
“Tet us not be divided by death, O 
Jupiter!” was the reply; “let us die at the 
same hour, and not either of us know the 
sorrow of looking on the other dead.” 
Jupiter granted their request, and then, 
bidding them follow nim, showed them .from 
the hill’s summit, that a flood had swept 
away the houses of their uncharitable neigh- 
bours, while their own cottage had been 
suddenly metamorphosed into a magnificent 
temple, in which henceforward they were 
to serve him. 
They dwelt many years after in great peace 
in their consecrated home, when one day, as 
they talked together of the wondrous past, 
Baucis was gradually changed into a Linden 
tree, and her husband into an Oak, and 
henceforward they twined their branches to- 
gether, and stood outside the temple of the 
gods, not parted by death. 
The Oak was consecrated to Jupiter, be- 


