. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. ered with the hide of a monstrous Hon, ran and hid himselfin a great jar. He lifted the lid up to ask the servants whatwas the meaning of this terrible appearance. And the servantstold him that it was Heracles come back with the skin ofthe lion of Nemea. On hearing this Eurystheus hid himselfagain. He would not speak with Heracles nor have him come nearhim, so fearful was he. But Heracles was content to be leftalone. He sat down in the palace and feasted himself. The servants came to the king; Eurystheus lifted the lid ofthe jar and
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. ered with the hide of a monstrous Hon, ran and hid himselfin a great jar. He lifted the lid up to ask the servants whatwas the meaning of this terrible appearance. And the servantstold him that it was Heracles come back with the skin ofthe lion of Nemea. On hearing this Eurystheus hid himselfagain. He would not speak with Heracles nor have him come nearhim, so fearful was he. But Heracles was content to be leftalone. He sat down in the palace and feasted himself. The servants came to the king; Eurystheus lifted the lid ofthe jar and they told him how Heracles was feasting and de-vouring all the goods in the palace. The king flew into a rage,but still he was fearful of having the hero before him. He is-sued commands through his heralds ordering Heracles to goforth at once and perform the second of his tasks. It was to slay the great water snake that made its lair in theswamps of Lerna. Heracles stayed to feast another day, andthen, with the lions skin across his shoulders and the great. THE HEROES OF THE QUEST 227 club in his hands, he started off. But this time he did not goalone; the boy Iolaus went with him. Heracles and Iolaus went on until they came to the vastswamp of Lerna. Right in the middle of the swamp was thewater snake that was called the Hydra. Nine heads it had,and it raised them up out of the water as the hero and his com-panion came near. They could not cross the swamp to cometo the monster, for man or beast would sink and be lost in it. The Hydra remained in the middle of the swamp belchingmud at the hero and his companion. Then Heracles took uphis bow and he shot flaming arrows at its heads. It grew intosuch a rage that it came through the swamp to attack swung his club. As the Hydra came near he knockedhead after head off its body. But for every head knocked off two grew upon the as he struggled with the monster a huge crab came out ofthe swamp, and gripping Herac
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