Marcia wove her basket, putting a band of red around _Frontispiece_
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Other flocks of sheep and other men with oxen were 12
hurrying to shelter
The patriarch looked at the fire on the altar 21
All the young voices took up the song 33
The people gathered in the public square 45
Whoever they were, it was proper at this time to offer 59
food to strangers
“I have seen something like this before,” he said 72
The lad went straight down the mountainside with his 79
wolf at his heels
The little maidens walked soberly together 96
The little creatures inside the basket were not cubs or 103
lambs
“Victory! Vic-to-ry! Romulus forever!” 132
Then they blessed him and crowned him with the victor’s 139
crown of laurel
A plan of Rome in classical times, showing the seven 144
hills
The copper plow was drawn by a white bull and a white 147
cow
They sat together that night and watched the moon sail 161
grandly over the flood
Mamurius lifted her in his strong arms and carried her 170
through the door
Toto spread out his gay cloth upon the ground 178
There was a gleam of bright metal in the hole they were 203
digging
Emilia was allowed to sit with them and spin and sew 216
His mother molded for him men and animals 235
Far away, in a cavern on a mountain height, there lived 259
for many years an old shepherd