To celebrate this great deliverance, a special festival is held once every 12 years. On the 1éth of the 10th' moon, the people in every village "gather for the celebration. An altar is built in each villa: and from the community a suitable person is chosen to conduct the ceremony. He is clad in special vestments of white and acts the Broadway—with St. Andrew's Church on the left part of a priest. A goat is provided, to be offered up as a thank. offering. It_ is required that the head and all four feet of the goat be black in colow ch family in the village contributes a few "strands of coloured cotton thread to de-
Troubled with the dire sitation by which so many of his fellows had met their doom, he set about to devise" means to cause the death of the destr ud finally he conceived a plan. When the monster arrived at Drango and demanded his toll of human fare, the smith, who was busy at his' forge, answered the dread call, bidding the python wait at the door of the smithy until he came. Then taking a ladle in his hand, the smith dipped up some molten iron which he had prepared, and ied it to the python, who the goat.
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