| Marcia wove her basket, putting a band of red
around the curve | [Frontispiece] |
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| Other flocks of sheep and other men with oxen
were hurrying to shelter | [12] |
| The patriarch looked at the fire on the altar | [21] |
| All the young voices took up the song | [33] |
| The people gathered in the public square | [45] |
| Whoever they were, it was proper at this time
to offer food to strangers | [59] |
| “I have seen something like this before,” he said | [72] |
| The lad went straight down the mountainside with
his wolf at his heels | [79] |
| The little maidens walked soberly together | [96] |
| The little creatures inside the basket were not cubs
or lambs | [103] |
| “Victory! Vic-to-ry! Romulus forever!” | [132] |
| Then they blessed him and crowned him with the
victor’s crown of laurel | [139] |
| A plan of Rome in classical times, showing the
seven hills | [144] |
| The copper plow was drawn by a white bull and a white cow | [147] |
| They sat together that night and watched the
moon sail grandly over the flood | [161] |
| Mamurius lifted her in his strong arms and carried
her through the door | [170] |
| Toto spread out his gay cloth upon the ground | [178] |
| There was a gleam of bright metal in the hole
they were digging | [203] |
| Emilia was allowed to sit with them and spin and sew | [216] |
| His mother molded for him men and animals | [235] |
| Far away, in a cavern on a mountain height, there
lived for many years an old shepherd | [259] |