StNicholas [serial] . ALMOST AT THE GOAL. Ladas of the province of Galatia wins thethird course! The next heat went to Lycaon the Spartan,the Wolf —so named from that grim wintersnight when, alone and on foot, he had run down a gray wolf of the forest, and killed himwith no other weapons than his hands and last heat was taken by Arcesilaus, therunner from Corinth, surnamed the Girl, fromthe fairness of his face and the effeminacy ofhis manners; yet underneath that soft exteriorwas concealed a fire and a fury of courage thathad made him one of the most noted of all theGrecian racers i
StNicholas [serial] . ALMOST AT THE GOAL. Ladas of the province of Galatia wins thethird course! The next heat went to Lycaon the Spartan,the Wolf —so named from that grim wintersnight when, alone and on foot, he had run down a gray wolf of the forest, and killed himwith no other weapons than his hands and last heat was taken by Arcesilaus, therunner from Corinth, surnamed the Girl, fromthe fairness of his face and the effeminacy ofhis manners; yet underneath that soft exteriorwas concealed a fire and a fury of courage thathad made him one of the most noted of all theGrecian racers in long or short races. Now came a brief interval of rest, whilethe trainers with supple hands and limpid oilrubbed out the last vestige of fatigue from limbson whose speed that day depended the honorof a city. As the mighty-voiced herald calledforth the names and cities of the heat-winners,they ranged themselves at the start in the orderof their names. First was a Thessalian, a heavy-featured,sturdily built mountain
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