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 woven wattles thatched with reeds, they changed into a house of marble with a golden roof. For long and long that house shone there in its marble and gold. But then creepers began to cover the marble walls and grow over the golden roof. Now the creepers were a foot thick, and walls and roof were covered with them.

But Baucis and Philemon and the old goose still lived there, and the garden still had cabbages, and apples and nuts grew on the trees, and there was a spring of water beside the house, and a white-thorn tree before the door to keep ill luck away.