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 Ulysses 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 . Immediately after escaping from this peril , a still greater one had befallen him . Scudding before the hurricane , he reached a place , which , as he afterwards found , was called Laestrygonia , where some monstrous giants had eaten up many of his companions , and had sunk every one of his vessels , except that in which he himself sailed , by flinging great masses of rock at them , from the cliffs along the shore . After going through such troubles as these , you can not wonder that King Ulysses was glad to moor his tempest-beaten bark in a quiet cove of the green island , which I began with telling you about . But he had encountered so many dangers from giants , and one-eyed Cyclops , and monsters of the sea and land , that he could not help dreading some mischief , even in this pleasant and seemingly solitary spot . For two days , therefore , the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet , and either staid on board of their vessel , or merely crept along under the cliffs that bordered the shore ; and to keep themselves alive , they dug shellfish out of the sand , and sought for any little rill of fresh water that might be running towards the sea .
Before the two days were spent , they grew very weary of this kind of life ; for the followers of King Ulysses , XXXXX you will find it important to remember , were terrible gormandizers , and pretty sure to grumble if they missed their regulars meals , and their irregular ones besides .
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