god and fairies, entered the garden and said, smiling, "You have made the offering of flowers to the goddess quite correctly, as they did of old; all that remains is to pronounce the prayerproperly, and it is this:" So he repeated the Invocation of Diana Lovely Goddess of the bow! Lovely Goddess of the arrows! Of all hounds and of all hunting Thou who wakest in starry heaven When the sun is sunk in slumber Thou with moon upon thy forehead, Who the chase by night preferrest Unto hunting in the daylight, With thy nymphs unto the music Of the horn - thyself the huntress, And most powerful: I pray thee Think, although but for an instant, Upon us who pray unto thee! Then Virgil taught them also the Scongiurasionespell to be uttered when good fortune or aught is specially required. - The Conjuration to Diana Fair goddess of the rainbow, Of the stars and of the moon! The queen most powerful Of hunters and the night! We beg of thee thy aid, That thou may'st give to us The best of fortune ever! Then he added the conclusion: If thou heed'st our evocation And wilt give good fortune to us, Then in proof give us a token! And having taught them this, Virgil departed. Then the children ran to tell their parents all that had happened, and the latter impressed it on them to keep it a secret, nor breathe a word or hint thereof to any one. But what was their amazement when they found early the next morning before the statue a deer freshly killed, which gave them good dinners for many a day; nor did they want thereafter at any time game of all kinds, when the prayer had been devoutly pronounced. There was a neighbor of this family, a priest, who held in hate all the ways and worship of the gods of the old time, and whate...
