Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 417
ting. Worst of all, so hard and cold and hateful was theirstare, that he who looked full in their faces froze immediatelyinto stone. Now how, mused Perseus, is a man to give battle to suchhorrid creatures when he may not even look on them? Nevertheless, he bade a sad farewell to his mother, and… … and lo! there before him, resting lightly on the sand, stood a beau-tiful woman in long white robes with a shining helmet on her head,a staff in her hand, and a shield on her arm,—^Min-erva, thegoddess of Wisdom herself. Perseus, said she, take this shield. So brightly is it pol-ished that if you…
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