Ceres , Bacchus , and the neighborhood medicine man is the one indispensable person in town . That the hard-fisted Amelia has the living touch is demonstrated at the arrival of a sniveling hunchbacked dwarf who asks for food and shelter . The major characters in The Ballad of the Sad Cafy offer a perfect illustration , the way in which the familiar is suddenly turned into the strange and new . And the nature of their familiarity , at least , is suggested by a bare summary...











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