`` There was a young shepherd named Glaucon -- a very handsome young shepherd -- who lived in a little village called Thebes . It became a very great and famous city afterwards , but at this time it was only a little village , very quiet and simple . Too quiet for Glaucon 's liking . He grew tired of it , and he thought he would like to go away from home and see something of the world . So he took his knapsack and his shepherd 's crook , and wandered away until he came to Thessaly . That is the land of the gods ' hill , you know . The name of the hill was Olympus . But it has nothing to do with this story . This happened on another mountain -- Mount Pelion . `` Glaucon hired himself to a wealthy man who had a great many sheep . And every day Glaucon had to lead the sheep up to pasture on Mount Pelion , and watch them while they ate . There was nothing else to do , and he would have found the time very long , if he had not been able to play on a flute . So he played very often and very beautifully , as he sat under the trees and watched the wonderful blue sea afar off , and thought about Aglaia . `` Aglaia was his master 's daughter . She was so sweet and beautiful that Glaucon fell in love with her the very moment he first saw her ; and when he was not playing his flute on the mountain he was thinking about Aglaia , and dreaming that some day he might have flocks of his own , and a dear little cottage down in the valley where he and Aglaia might live . `` Aglaia had fallen in love with Glaucon just as he had with her . But she never let him suspect it for ever so long . He did not know how often she would steal up the mountain and hide behind the rocks near where the sheep pastured , to listen to Glaucon 's beautiful music . It was very lovely music , because he was always thinking of Aglaia while he played , though he little dreamed how near him she often was . `` But after awhile Glaucon found out that Aglaia loved him , and everything was well .
Nowadays I suppose a wealthy man like Aglaia 's father would n't be willing to let his daughter marry a hired man ; but this was XXXXX the Golden Age , you know , when nothing like that mattered at all .
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