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down the cover. At parting with the child the mother was almost distracted, wringing her hands and weeping much, but being comforted by the magician & her kinswoman she was at last pacified, & desired to go home, as she could not bear to see her child put into the water, so she and her kinswoman departed home. The magician then took the boat carried it down to his own garden, at the foot of which ran the river Jordan, & 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 inform'd 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 expense of burying a coffin full of bones, by way of a blind; and the
