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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 176

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orest for game forthe christening feast, and as they rode they saw an unknown animalcreeping on the ground, and they threw a mantle over it, and chained 158 LEGENDS AND STORIES it. and brought it to the palace. Many came to look at this beast,and aniono- them the nurse with the infant in her arms,… … (A. Durer.) Penance of St. John Chrysostom. moss and hair fell from him, and they brouirht him garments, and hebaptized the child with great devotion. Then he confessed to theking, who thought, Perhaps tliis was my daughter, who was lostand never found. And he sent to seek her remains, that…

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