Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . chus; a,nd many lay dead, and all had wounds, andAthene in the likeness of a bird sat upon the beam whichwent across the hall, clapping her wings with a fearfulnoise; and sometimes the great bird would fly among them,cuffing at the swords and at the lances, and up and downthe hall would go, beating her wings and troubling every-thing, that it was frightful to behold, and it frayed theblood from the cheeks of those heaven-hated suitors; but toUlysses and to his son she appeared in her own divine simil-itude, with her snake-fringed shie
Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . chus; a,nd many lay dead, and all had wounds, andAthene in the likeness of a bird sat upon the beam whichwent across the hall, clapping her wings with a fearfulnoise; and sometimes the great bird would fly among them,cuffing at the swords and at the lances, and up and downthe hall would go, beating her wings and troubling every-thing, that it was frightful to behold, and it frayed theblood from the cheeks of those heaven-hated suitors; but toUlysses and to his son she appeared in her own divine simil-itude, with her snake-fringed shield, a goddess armed, fight-ing their battles. Nor did that dreadful pair desist till theyhad laid all their foes at their feet. At their feet they layin shoals; like fishes, when the fishermen break up theirnets, so they lay gasping and sprawling at the feet ofUlysses and liis son. And Ulysses remembered the predic-tion of Tiresias, which said that he was to perish by his , unless he slew those who knew him not 276 STEPPING STONES TO IX. CONCLUSION. ?*HEN certain of the queens householdwent up and told Penelope what hadhappened, and how her lord, Ulysses, wascome home and had slain the suitors. Butshe gave no heed to their words, but thoughtthat some frenzy possessed them, or that they mockedher; for it is the property of such extremes of sorrowas she had felt not to believe when any great joy she rated and chid them exceedingly for troubling they the more persisted in their asseverations of thetruth of what they had affirmed; and some of them hadseen the slaughtered bodies of the suitors dragged forth ofthe hall. And they said, That poor guest whom youtalked with last night was Ulysses. Then she was yet morefully persuaded that they mocked her, and she wept. Butthey said, This thing is true which we have told. We satwithin, in an inner room in the palace, and the doors of thehall were shut on us, but we heard the cries and the groansof
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