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Rh only thing that remained was to deceive her husband, and get this child buried under the sanction of Judas’s body.

The father coming home at night, and finding his wife in tears, soon guessed at the dismal cause; and inquiring of the servants, they with dissembled grief informed him, That the child died in the morning, soon after his departure. The man was much affected with the loss of his child, and thinking to prevent his wife’s grief by the sight of the body, he had it removed to a kinsman’s house, and in a day or two interred it from thence, supposing it to be his son Judas.

By this time Providence had conducted Judas, alive and well, upon the coast of Iscariot, a kingdom in Palestine, where Pheophilus the King often used to recreate himself, in beholding the ships pass and repass at sea. It happened that the very day that Judas was cast on the coast, the King and his nobles came on that diversion; and as they were standing on the top of the rock,