. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. d precious gems; and his heart beatproudly that he was actually to have theguiding of the magnificent car for a wholeday. The horses were led forth and fastenedto the chariot, and Aurora, the goddess ofdawn, threw open the doors of the East,through which the sun in its splendor waspresently to rise. After a final plea, whichPhaethon stubbornly resisted, Apollo anointedthe boys head with ointment so that he mightnot be scorched by the br
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. d precious gems; and his heart beatproudly that he was actually to have theguiding of the magnificent car for a wholeday. The horses were led forth and fastenedto the chariot, and Aurora, the goddess ofdawn, threw open the doors of the East,through which the sun in its splendor waspresently to rise. After a final plea, whichPhaethon stubbornly resisted, Apollo anointedthe boys head with ointment so that he mightnot be scorched by the brightness of thebeams, and then set the crown of rays on theyoung head. Remember, my son, he said, do not drivetoo high or too low; a middle course is all, do not attempt to use the whip, forthe horses are spirited; and hold tight to thereins. Only half heeding his fathers instructions,Phaethon sprang into the chariot, grasped thereins, and shaking them over his steeds,started out through the open door. It did not take the horses long to feel thatit was an unpracticed hand that grasped thereins, and, taking the bits in their teeth, they :_5 7^. THE HORSES DASHED OUT OP THE TRAVELED ROAD Now Apollo was very sorry for the rashpromise which he had made. Choose something else, my son, hebegged; what you have asked for is not can have no idea of the dangers of thepath across the heavens. The road at the be-ginning of the journey slopes upward sosteeply that even my horses can hardly climbit; the middle of the road is so high abovethe earth that even I, myself, become dizzywhen I look down; and the last part of the dashed out of the traveled road and wildlyup the heavens. The courage with whichPhaethon had started out did not last him—a dizzying, sickening distancebelow—was the earth and the sea. What ifhe should drop from this awful height! Andthere, when he looked about him in theheavens, were even worse sights; the Big Bearand the Little Bear, the
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