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THE STAR AND THE LILY MYTHS THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW A SELECTION OF THE CLASSIC MYTHS OF ALL TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE EDITED BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED BY BLANCHE OSTERTAG N…
THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES Did you ever hear of the golden apples that grew in the garden of the Hesperides? Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great price, by the bushel, if any of them could …
THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, the good lady was very bus…
THE CHIMÆRA Once, in the old, old times (for all the strange things which I tell you about happened long before anybody can remember), a fountain gushed out of a hillside, in the marvellous land of G…
THE GOLDEN TOUCH Once upon a time, there lived a very rich man, and a king besides, whose name was Midas; and he had a little daughter, whom nobody but myself ever heard of, and whose name I either n…
THE GORGON'S HEAD Perseus was the son of Danaë, who was the daughter of a king. And when Perseus was a very little boy, some wicked people put his mother and himself into a chest, and set them a…
THE DRAGON'S TEETH Cadmus, Phœnix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa (who was a very beautiful child) were at play together, near the seashore, in their fa…
THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER One evening, in times long ago, old Philemon and his old wife Baucis sat at their cottage door, enjoying the calm and beautiful sunset. They had already eaten their frugal supp…
THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN Long, long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child, named Epimetheus, who never had either father or mother; and, that he might not be lonely, a…
THE CYCLOPS When the great city of Troy was taken, all the chiefs who had fought against it set sail for their homes. But there was wrath in heaven against them, for indeed they had borne themselves …
