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IV. INTERPRETATIONS.
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21. b. Under the gourd. A small grasshopper-like beast gnawing the gourd stem. I should like to know what insects do attack the Amiens gourds. This may be an entomological study, for aught we know.
22. Micah.
To the front.
22, a. The Tower of the Flock (iv. 8).

The tower is wrapped in clouds, God appearing above it.

22, b. Each shall rest and "none shall make them afraid" (iv. 4).

A man and his wife "under his vine and fig-tree."

Inside Porch.
22, c. "Swords into ploughshares " (iv. 3).

Nevertheless, two hundred years after these medallions were cut, the sword manufacture had become a staple in Amiens! Not to her advantage.

22, d. "Spears into pruning-hooks" (iv. 3).
23. Nahum.
Inside Porch.
23, a. "None shall look back" (ii. 8).
23, b. The Burden of Nineveh (i. 1).[1]
  1. The statue of the prophet, above, is the grandest of the entire series; and note especially the "diadema" of his own luxuriant hair