The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 212
ho came with a golden scepter to the camp of the Greeks before Troy, to buy his daughter free; and the sunny metal figures everywhere in the oldest mythology we know. You all have read—and I hope in Hawthornes Tanglewood Tales, where the story is more beautifully told than it was ever elsewhere—of… … 410 CURIOUS STORIES FROM HISTORY king guarded it so jealously. Of course themyth is only a poetic way—such as stories gen-erally assume in the folk-lore of an undevel-oped race—of saying that Jason and his boldfellow-sailors of the Argo sailed to the gold-mines of Asia, and found them. The…
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