joy ! '' cried he , clapping his hands . `` Brindle is going to lie down . '' They all looked ; and , sure enough , the cow had stopped , and was staring leisurely about her , as other cows do when on the point of lying down . And slowly , slowly did she recline herself on the soft grass , first bending her forelegs , and then crouching her hind ones . When Cadmus and his companions came up with her , there was the brindled cow taking her ease , chewing her cud , and looking them quietly in the face ; as if this was just the spot she had been seeking for , and as if it were all a matter of course . `` This , then , '' said Cadmus , gazing around him , `` this is to be my home . '' It was a fertile and lovely plain , with great trees flinging their sun-speckled shadows over it , and hills fencing it in from the rough weather At no great distance , they beheld a river gleaming in the sunshine . A home feeling stole into the heart of poor Cadmus . He was very glad to know that here he might awake in the morning without the necessity of putting on his dusty sandals to travel farther and farther . The days and the years would pass over him , and find him still in this pleasant spot . If he could have had his brothers with him , and his friend Thasus , and could have seen his dear mother under a roof of his own , he might here have been happy after all their disappointments . Some day or other , too , his sister Europa might have come quietly to the door of his home , and smiled round upon the familiar faces . But , indeed , since there was no hope of regaining the friends of his boyhood , or ever seeing his dear sister again , Cadmus resolved to make himself happy with these new companions , who had grown so fond of him while following the cow . `` Yes , my friends , '' said he to them , `` this is to be our home . Here we will build our habitations . The brindled cow , which has led us hither , will supply us with milk . We will cultivate the neighboring soil and lead an innocent and happy life . '' His companions joyfully assented to this plan ; and , in the first place , being very hungry and thirsty , they looked about them for the means of providing a comfortable meal . Not far off they saw a tuft of trees , which appeared as if there might be a spring of water beneath them .
They went thither XXXXX fetch some , leaving Cadmus stretched on the ground along with the brindled cow ; for , now that he had found a place of rest , it seemed as if all the weariness of his pilgrimage , ever since he left King Agenor 's palace , had fallen upon him at once .
If after around into of off over to while with