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The treasure chest of my bookhouse (1920)

Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 433

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ne of the birds had disappeared fromthe place, so frightened by the noise that none ever dared return. Thereafter, Eurystheus set Hercules five well-nigh impossiblelabors more. First, he must clean out in one day the filthy stablesof King Au-geas wherein the King had kept three thousand oxenfor… … thoroughly in one day. Then hemust fetch to Mycenae alive theraging white bull of Crete, buthe seized it by its horns and heldit so firmly in spite of its terriblestruggles that the bull saw it hadmet its master and followed himlike a lamb. For his eighth laborhe captured the savage man-eat-ing…

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