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e fee for oldCharon, probably furnished him by his mother; but, 142 ECHO AND NARCISSUS as he crossed these waters, he still gazed at thepicture he saw over the side of the boat. The nymphs made a funeral pyre for the body ofNarcissus and gathered his ashes and put them intoa sacred urn. The next… … 143 XXX MIDAS In Asia Minor was the country of Phrygia. Inearly times, when kings were selected in a ratherstrange way, there came into the chief city of thatcountry a laborer named Gordius in a queer oldcart drawn by a pair of oxen. The people liked thestranger, and after a time chose him king. As…
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