/tab\understood local observance and the half-@
/tab\believed local legend reacting capriciously
/tab\on each other. They leave her a fragment
/tab\of bread and a morsel of meat at the cross-@
/tab\roads to take on her journey; and perhaps
/tab\some real Demeter carries them away, as
/tab\she wanders through the country. The
/tab\incidents of their yearly labour become to
/tab\them acts of worship; they seek her bless-@
/tab\ing through many expressive names, and
/tab\almost catch sight of her at dawn or even-@
/tab\ing, in the nooks of the fragrant fields.
/tab\She lays a finger on the grass at the road-@
/tab\side, and some new flower comes up. All
/tab\the picturesque implements of country life
/tab\are hers; the poppy also, emblem of an
/tab\exhaustless fertility, and full of mysterious
/tab\juices for the alleviation of pain. The
/tab\country-woman who puts her child to
/tab\sleep in the great, cradle-like basket for
/tab\winnowing the corn remembers Demeter
/tab\Kourotrophos, the mother of corn and
/tab\children alike, and makes it a little coat
/tab\out of the dress worn by its father at his

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