Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 276
it; but every season brings itsharvest of fruit —peaches, loquats, pomegranates,figs, grapes that put Eshcol to shame, andoranges that vie with the golden apples of theHesperides. Even December and January bringofferings of flowers; and you may have rosesfrom the garden for your Christmas table.… … THE WORK OVERFLOWS INTO THE STREETS. daughter one day out in the fields, and found,after long search, that she had been stolen by Dis,the king of the under-world; how Demeterpleaded with Hera, the queen of the gods, to have 178 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Dec, her daughter restored; how,…
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