. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . ll higher, so that they couldeasily defend themselves from the attacks of the wild tribesliving around them. In order to draw more people to histown, Romulus built an asylum, or place of refuge, for thosewho had been in trouble in their own towns or for anyreason had been driven away from their homes, till soon hehad a large number of people living within the mud walls ofhis little village. Many of them were wild and rough, butthey were brave. They were all men, and they wanted wives to makehomes for them. Romulus asked the people o
. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . ll higher, so that they couldeasily defend themselves from the attacks of the wild tribesliving around them. In order to draw more people to histown, Romulus built an asylum, or place of refuge, for thosewho had been in trouble in their own towns or for anyreason had been driven away from their homes, till soon hehad a large number of people living within the mud walls ofhis little village. Many of them were wild and rough, butthey were brave. They were all men, and they wanted wives to makehomes for them. Romulus asked the people of the neigh-boring towns to become friends with them and allow theirdaughters to be mamed to the men of Rome, but they allrefused with scorn. Open an asylum for women too,they said. Romulus and his people were not pleased, youmay be sure, with these answers, and they decided to tryother ways to get wives for themselves. A great festival was held by the people of that region inhonor of some god; men, women, and children were there. THE BEGINNING OF ROME. 199. 200 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE. In the midst of the festivities, Romulus and his men rushedin and seized as many of tlie unmarried girk as they they carried off with them to Rome and marriedthem, though they were unwilling brides. But the Romanswere not so cruel as they had been supposed to be. Theytreated their new wives with so great kindness that beforelong they had won their love, and the women began to beproTid of their Roman husbands. The people of the cities whose maidens had been thustaken and married by force to the wild young men of thenew city, took up arms at once to win back the girls; butthe Romans were too strong for them. Finally the Sabines,led by their king, Tatius, were more successful than theothers had been; they broke through the outer wall andsecured possession of all but the citadel or central hill,which was surrounded by a strong inner wall, and on whichall the Romans with their new w
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