`` This is the kingdom of Iolchos , '' answered the man , `` and we are the subjects of King Pelias . Our monarch has summoned us together , that we may see him sacrifice a black bull to Neptune , who , they say , is his majesty 's father . Yonder is the king , where you see the smoke going up from the altar . '' While the man spoke he eyed Jason with great curiosity ; for his garb was quite unlike that of the Iolchians , and it looked very odd to see a youth with a leopard 's skin over his shoulders , and each hand grasping a spear . Jason perceived , too , that the man stared particularly at his feet , one of which , you remember , was bare , while the other was decorated with his father 's golden-stringed sandal . `` Look at him ! only look at him ! '' said the man to his next neighbor . `` Do you see ? He wears but one sandal ! '' Upon this , first one person , and then another , began to stare at Jason , and everybody seemed to be greatly struck with something in his aspect ; though they turned their eyes much oftener towards his feet than to any other part of his figure . Besides , he could hear them whispering to one another . `` One sandal ! One sandal ! '' they kept saying . `` The man with one sandal ! Here he is at last ! Whence has he come ? What does he mean to do ? What will the king say to the one-sandaled man ? ''
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