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forever live. But she added that her death by their wickedness would entail upon them the unclear of earning their subsistence with the sweat of their brow by overwhelming labours under hot suns. Still, if they attended to her injunctions, they would not labour in vain. They were at stated periods to draw her body slowly over the earth, and she would return to them in a growth of corn from the places over which her body had been drawn thus, while at the same time she should observe from her unseen abode in the skies whether they complied with her further instructions to tend the field through which they drew? her at the various stages of her uprising in the shape of her corn, _ by rooting out the weeds and copping away the superfluous husks, and, at the same time, uttering thank and prayers in a series of devotional chants, of which she furnished them with the forms. "When you have discharged these duties and when you shall have sung these songs", she added, "you will at length see me fully grown. I shall lift my head proudly, You will look on me and be glad: and be sure that you are careful of me, for elsewhere you will find no milk where source is inexhaustible like mine. _ and when you discover that that my bosom is full of nourishment and