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for the protection of his purity. He was never permitted to wander about like other children. He was never allowed to sit or eat at a neighbors, lest he should chance upon a seat or food which some female still under the term of exclusion, a some make included , for any other cause, in a similar interdict,-might have touched. But though the child was thus vigilantly screened by his natural guardians, the priest to whom he was committed at his birth, always kept him in view. As he grew in years, the holy monitor increased in assiduity; and many a day of fasting and night of watchfulness, would he employed in impressing upon the young pupil the various duties to which he was destined. Among these, even the knowledge of the divers articles of food from which certain orders of the sacred brotherhood must abstain, exacted no little time and attention; for particular officers were found to particularized prohibitions. A child intended, for example, to be made chief speaker in the war, Ska, Li, Lo, Ski, must never taste of frogs, nor of the tongue on breast of any animal whatever, and so on, through a longer catalosue? of exceptions than can at this moment be remembered. More generally, the devoting of sons