They all looked; and, sure enough, the cow
had stopped, and was staring leisurely about
her, as 3ther cows do when on the point of lying
down. And slowly, slowly did she recline her-
self on the soft grass, first bending her fore legs,
and then crouching her hind ones. When Cad-
mus and his companions came up with her,
there was the brindled cow taking her ease,
chewing her cud, and looking them quietly in
the face; as if this was just the spot she had
been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter
of course.

"This, then," said Cadmus, gazing around
him, "this is to be my home."

It was a fertile and lovely plain, with great
trees flinging their sun-speckled shadows over it,
and hills fencing it in from the rough weather.
At no great distance, they beheld a river gleam-
ing in the sunshine. A home feeling stole into
the heart of poor Cadmus. He was very glad
to know that here he might awake in the morn-
ing, without the necessity of putting on his
dusty sandals to travel farther and farther. The
days and the years would pass over him, and
find him still in this pleasant spot. If he could

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