The Victory of the Vanquished a Story of the First Century
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The imagination of Siguna, the child of the North- ern forest, went back to her old woodland home in the Lippe valley. " Were those Jews also, " she asked of Laon, " once foresters, as we Germans are ? Do they keep this feast in remembrance of their early home ?" But Laon was never communicative con- VICTORY OF THE VANQUISHED. 341 cerning the Jews ; and Siguna was left to her own conjectures for an explanation. Few of the branches were such as her own forests could have furnished. Glossy myrtle... boughs were entwined with gray olive branches ; some of the huts were roofed alto- gether with palms ; some leafy bowers there were of sycamore and pine. There was a variety in the size as in the foliage. The Feast being a family festival, as those of the Hebrew nation were, these bowers were little tempor- ary homes, adapted to the numbers or the wealth of the family : some, humble little dwarf huts ; some, vaults of greenery twenty feet high. Evening and morning joyous bands made processions through the streets, carrying large bunches of fruit ; fathers, mothers, youths, and maidens, and little children.
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