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Suffice it that after sad spirits, prolonged through many of its months, as it called them, we have cast our skins, have taken a farewell of the pompous, troublesome trifle called housekeeping, and are settled down into poor boarders and lodgers at next door with an old couple, the Baucis and Baucida of dull Enfield.
See Keary's "Outlines of Primitive Belief," 1882, pp. 66-7. Metam., viii. 714: "Frondere Philemona Baucis, Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon. ... 'Valeque, O conjux! dixere simul, simul abdita texit Ora frutex." Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 290, iii. 271. Grimm's "Teut. Mythology," ii. 827. Cox and Jones' "Popular Romances of the Middle Ages," 1880, p. 139
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