The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 168
y, give him a drink of waterbefore the astonished guards could interfere. A PRINCE OF JERUSALEM AS A SLAVEIN THE GALLEYS OF ROME A galley-slave was usually worn to death in ayear or so, but Ben Hur had not abandoned thehope that he might yet live to fight for the Lordof Israel, and even in the… … XX—11 BEN HUR, HIS MOTHER, AND HIS SISTER, TIRZAH. 363 364 TWO WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN STORIES he would better be able to stand the strain of thetoil, and this change he contrived to effect, sothat he developed the strength and muscles of,a giant, and became the best oarsman in thegalley. Three years…
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