down the cover. At parting with the child the mother was almost distracted, wringing her hands and weeping bitterly; but being comforted by the magician and her kinswoman, she was at last pacified, and desired to go home, as she could not bear to see the child put into the water; so she and her kinswoman departed home. The magician then took the boat, and carried it down to his own garden, at the foot of which ran the river Jordan, and putting it in where a strong stream ran, it was soon carried out of sight.
The mother when she got home fainted away, but was revived by being informed by her maid-servant, that during her absence they had almost brought the matter to a close, having found a neighbour’s male child, who had died the day before, and was just of the same age as Judas, for whose body they had given the parents a small sum of money, and paid the expenses of burying a coffin full of bones, by way of a blind; and the
