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INVASION OF CÆSAR.
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overnight, and their motto was, "Never do anything unless you feel like it very much indeed."

Cæsar was a broad man from a religious point of view, and favored bringing the Druids before the grand jury. For uttering such sentiments as these the Druids declared his life to be forfeit, and set one of their number to settle also with him after morning services the question as to the matter of immersion and sound money.


MONUMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OR ANCIENT SCARECROW.


Religious questions were even then as hotly discussed as in later times, and Cæsar could not enjoy society very much for five or six days.

At Stonehenge there are still relics of a stone temple which the Druids used as a place of idolatrous worship and assassination. On Giblet Day people came for many miles to see the exercises and carry home a few cutlets of intimate friends.

After this Rome sent over various great Federal appointees to soften and refine the people.