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Bein' an editor, sir, do ye happen to know where Solomon s Temple stood?" I fancied that it was in in Persia? Well, I did not know. "'Tis not in history nor in the Bible where it was. But I saw it, meself. The first pictures of cher-rubs and cupids was sculptured upon thim walls and pillars. Two of the biggest, sir, stood in the adytum to form the baldachin over the Ark.
But the wings of thim sculptures was intindid for horns. And the faces was the faces of goats. Ten thousand goats there was in and about the temple. And your cher-rubs was billy-goats in the days of King Solomon, but the painters misconstrued the horns into wings. "And I knew Tamerlane, the lame Timour, sir, very well. I saw him at Keghut and at Zaranj.
You could yet make out their forms, though the dust blurred their outlines strangely. "Ye calls them 'cher-rubs'," cackled the old man. "Babes, ye fancy they are, with wings. And there's one wid legs and a bow and arrow that ye call Cupid I know where they was found. The great-great-great-grandfather of thim all was a billy-goat.
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