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PIGEONS. 145
and that the victorious emperors sacrificed their
captives to this cruel national sport. Blank
despair unnerved the mother and the young
maiden, and a sleepless night was passed by
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" Early in the morning the father brought
all the young pigeons from their coop, and in
the presence of his wife and foster daughter,
who were kneeling, half unconscious of his
doings, entirely overcome with grief, he
proceeded to the altar of their Lares, and made
a sacrifice of all the young Roman pigeoAs,
invoking the- blessing of many gods and
goddesses. But he spared the old male and
female birds, as they were his well-trained
and trusted messengers, and with these, when
the sun was high in the heavens, he left for
Rome.
" On parting he told his wife he was bent
upon seeing his young son die like a Grecian
hero, and that he brought the two carrier
pigeons with him to despatch them with the
intelligence of what might have happened.
Should the male pigeon return alone, then the
old man would also return alone, and Zeo was
irretrievably lost; should the two birds return
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