Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 54
When you take one from one, the result will be two.Rather taken aback, but still thoroughly game,He called his hired help, Iolaus by name.Then he shaved off the heads as a man would a beard,And the necks (by his servant) were carefully seared,Till the deathless head soon was left grinning alone,And… … Nothing daunted, our Hercules went forth to fight it;He cut off one head, and two others were sighted.And thus the solution appeared to his view:Vol. XXIV.—6. The mandate was given to capture him living,So our hero set out without any misgiving.All over the kingdom he followed the brute,Till a year…
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