. St. Nicholas [serial] . n his sisters, and change theircoverlets. But he was so drowsy that he halfthought it was a dream, and he lay, and fellasleep. But, in the dead of night, the wickedstepmother, Ino, crept into the room with adagger in her hand. And she stole up to thebed of Phrixus, and felt his hair, and his cover-let. Then she went softly to the bed of Helle,and felt her coverlet, and her hair, with the goldcrown on it. So she supposed these to be herown children, and she kissed them in the dark,and went to the beds of the other two chil-dren. She felt their heads, and they had nocro
. St. Nicholas [serial] . n his sisters, and change theircoverlets. But he was so drowsy that he halfthought it was a dream, and he lay, and fellasleep. But, in the dead of night, the wickedstepmother, Ino, crept into the room with adagger in her hand. And she stole up to thebed of Phrixus, and felt his hair, and his cover-let. Then she went softly to the bed of Helle,and felt her coverlet, and her hair, with the goldcrown on it. So she supposed these to be herown children, and she kissed them in the dark,and went to the beds of the other two chil-dren. She felt their heads, and they had nocrowns on, so she killed them, thinking theywere Phrixus and Helle. Then she crept down-stairs, and went back to bed. Now, in the morning, there were the step-mother Inos children cold and dead, and no-body knew who had killed them. Only the wicked queen knew, and she, of course, wouldnot tell of herself, but if she hated Phrixus andHelle before, now she hated them a hundredtimes worse than ever. But the old nurse was IffPtn. tall,shekill IXUS AND HELLE UPON THE GOLDEN RAM. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) gone, nobody ever saw her there again, andeverybody but the queen thought that she hadkilled the two children. Everywhere the kingsought for her, but he never found her, for shehad gone back to her sisters, the Clouds. And the Clouds were gone, too ! For six longmonths, from winter to harvest time, the rainnever fell. The country was burned up, thetrees grew black and dry, there was no waterin the streams, the corn turned yellow and diedbefore it was come into the ear. The peoplewere starving, the cattle and sheep were perish-ing, for there was no grass. And every day thesun rose hot and red, and went blazing througha sky without a cloud. Then the wicked stepmother, Ino, saw heichance. The king sent messengers to consult aprophetess, and to find out what should be doneto bring back the clouds and the rain. ThenIno took the messengers, and gave them gold,and threatened also to kill them, if they
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