`` Long live King Cadmus , '' they cried , `` in his beautiful palace . '' And the new king , with his five faithful followers at his heels , shouldering their pickaxes and marching in a rank -LRB- for they still had a soldier-like sort of behavior , as their nature was -RRB- , ascended the palace steps . Halting at the entrance , they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars , that were ranged from end to end of a great hall . At the farther extremity of this hall , approaching slowly towards him , Cadmus beheld a female figure , wonderfully beautiful , and adorned with a royal robe , and a crown of diamonds over her golden ringlets , and the richest necklace that ever a queen wore . His heart thrilled with delight . He fancied it his long-lost sister Europa , now grown to womanhood , coming to make him happy , and to repay him with her sweet sisterly affection , for all those weary wonderings in quest of her since he left King Agenor 's palace -- for the tears that he had shed , on parting with Phoenix , and Cilix , and Thasus -- for the heart-breakings that had made the whole world seem dismal to him over his dear mother 's grave . But , as Cadmus advanced to meet the beautiful stranger , he saw that her features were unknown to him , although , in the little time that it required to tread along the hall , he had already felt a sympathy betwixt himself and her . `` No , Cadmus , '' said the same voice that had spoken to him in the field of the armed men , `` this is not that dear sister Europa whom you have sought so faithfully all over the wide world . This is Harmonia , a daughter of the sky , who is given you instead of sister , and brothers , and friend , and mother . You will find all those dear ones in her alone . '' So King Cadmus dwelt in the palace , with his new friend Harmonia , and found a great deal of comfort in his magnificent abode , but would doubtless have found as much , if not more , in the humblest cottage by the wayside . Before many years went by , there was a group of rosy little children -LRB- but how they came thither has always been a mystery to me -RRB- sporting in the great hall , and on the marble steps of the palace , and running joyfully to meet King Cadmus when affairs of state left him at leisure to play with them . They called him father , and Queen Harmonia mother . The five old soldiers of the dragon 's teeth grew very fond of these small urchins , and were never weary of showing them how to shoulder sticks , flourish wooden swords , and march in military order , blowing a penny trumpet , or beating an abominable rub-a-dub upon a little drum . But King Cadmus , lest there should be too much of the dragon 's tooth in his children 's disposition , used to find time from his kingly duties to teach them their A B C -- which he invented for their benefit , and for which many little people , I am afraid , are not half so grateful to him as they ought to be . CIRCE 'S PALACE . Some of you have heard , no doubt , of the wise King Ulysses , and how he went to the siege of Troy , and how , after that famous city was taken and burned , he spent ten long years in trying to get back again to his own little kingdom of Ithaca . At one time in the course of this weary voyage , he arrived at an island that looked very green and pleasant , but the name of which was unknown to him . For , only a little while before he came thither , he had met with a terrible hurricane , or rather a great many hurricanes at once , which drove his fleet of vessels into a strange part of the sea , where neither himself nor any of his mariners had ever sailed . This misfortune was entirely owing to the foolish curiosity of his shipmates , who , while Ulysses lay asleep , had untied some very bulky leathern bags , in which they supposed a valuable treasure to be concealed .
But in each of these stout bags , King Aeolus , the ruler of the winds , had tied up a tempest , and had given it to XXXXX to keep in order that he might be sure of a favorable passage homeward to Ithaca ; and when the strings were loosened , forth rushed the whistling blasts , like air out of a blown bladder , whitening the sea with foam , and scattering the vessels nobody could tell whither .
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