Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 216
gift. And he said, My gift shall be that I will eat theelast of all thy company. And as he spake he fell back in a drunken sleep.Then Ulysses bade his comrades be of good courage,for the time was come when they should be dehvered.And they thrust the stake of olive wood into the firetill it was… … The Odyssey 181 force upon the stake, and thrust it in with might andmain. And the burning wood hissed in the eye, justas the red-hot iron hisses in the water when a manseeks to temper steel for a sword. Then the giant leapt up, and tore away the stake,and cried aloud, so that all the Cyclopes who…
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