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 in it! Had he been acquainted with the popular tales of the Greeks, he would eaily have fallen upon the idea, that her poor cattle had died of king Midas’s indigetion. An idea of the kind actually did come acros her imagination, and he immediately whetted her cae-knife, opened the goat’s carcae, and found in the tomach a piece of gold as large as a walnut, and o in proportion in the tomachs of the kids.

She now aw no end to her riches; but, in taking poeion of them he took poeion of the heavy cares attending them; he became uneay and fearful: he had a palpitation at her heart—heitated whether he hould lock up her treaure in the chet, or bury it in the cellar. She was alarmed for fear of thieves. She firmly reolved, however, not to let the urly Stephen know all at once, very jutly apprehending he would be intigated by the dæmon of avarice to take all the mammon to himelf, and let her and the children perih with