The innocents abroad; . de of them, they find ranges of ponderous masonrythat are as perfect in every detail as they were the day thoseold Cyelopian giants finished them. An English Company isgoing to excavate Ephesus—and then !And now am I reminded of— THE LEGEND, 425 y THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEK SLEEPEKS. In the Mount of Pion, yonder, is tlie Cave of the SevenSleepers. Once upon a time, about fifteen hundred years ago,seven young men lived near each other in Ephesus, who be-longed to the despised sect of the Christians. It came to passthat the good King Maximilianus, (I am telling this story fo
The innocents abroad; . de of them, they find ranges of ponderous masonrythat are as perfect in every detail as they were the day thoseold Cyelopian giants finished them. An English Company isgoing to excavate Ephesus—and then !And now am I reminded of— THE LEGEND, 425 y THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEK SLEEPEKS. In the Mount of Pion, yonder, is tlie Cave of the SevenSleepers. Once upon a time, about fifteen hundred years ago,seven young men lived near each other in Ephesus, who be-longed to the despised sect of the Christians. It came to passthat the good King Maximilianus, (I am telling this story fornice little boys and girls,) it came to pass, I say, that the goodKing Maximilianus fell to persecuting the Christians, and astime rolled on he made it very warm for them. So the sevenyoung men said one to the other, let us get up and they got np and traveled. They tarried not to bid theirfathers and mothers good-bye, or any friend they knew. Theyonly took certain moneys which their parents had, and gar-. THE JOURNEY. ments that belonged unto their friends, whereby they mightremember them when far away; and they took also the dogKetmehr, which was the property of their neighbor Malchus,because the beast did run his head into a noose which one ofthe young men was carrying carelessly, and they had not timeto release him; and they took also certain chickens that 426 THE SEVEN SLEEPERS. seemed lonely in the neighboring coops, and likewise somebottles of curious liquors that stood near the grocers window ;and then they departed from the city. By-and-by they cameto a marvelous cave in the Hill of Pion and entered into itand feasted, and presently they hurried on again. But theyforgot the bottles of curious liquors, and left them traveled in many lands, and had many strange adven-tures. They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportu-nity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. Theirmotto was in these words, namely, Procrastination is the thiefof
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