Lifting her eyes, she was surprised ??
euddcn verdure Hashing over ihe brown and
barren fields, exactly as you may have observed
a golden hue gleaming far and wide across the
landscape, from the just risen sun.

"Does the earth disobey me?" exclaimed
Mother Ceres, indignantly. "Does it presume
to be green, when I have bidden it be barren,
until my daughter shall be restored to my
arms?"

"Then open your arms, dear mother," cried a
well-known voice, "and take your little daugh-
ter into them."

And Proserpina came running, and flung her-
self upon her mother's bosom. Their mutual
transport is not to be described. The grief
of their separation had caused both of them to
shed a great many tears; and now they shed
a great many more, because their joy could not
?? well express itself in any other way.

When their hearts had grown a little mo.
quiet, Mother Ceres looked anxiously at Pro
Berpina.

"My child," said she, "did you taste any fooc
while you were in King Pluto's palace?"

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