Show easter ESS the egg is the sign of the resurrection which the easter festival commemorates the jews place it on the passover thereby indicating that their raccia to be resurrected the persians and both used it in their religious ceremonies and not only the Russian but the mohammedan on the easter morning gives the greeting christ ia risen and the reply christ r is risen indeed 1 is followed by anex change of eggs and the egg is as vell a J feature in all the old eastern legends many of which ara too improbable to even bear the semblance of truth others blight be true inasmuch as truth ia oftentimes stranger than fiction amma J gray in glood |