`` But as your business is so urgent , I will try to carry you across . If the river sweeps you away , it shall take me too . '' `` That , no doubt , will be a great comfort to both of us , '' quoth the old woman . `` But never fear . We shall get safely across . '' So she threw her arms around Jason 's neck ; and lifting her from the ground , he stepped boldly into the raging and foaming current , and began to stagger away from the shore . As for the peacock , it alighted on the old dame 's shoulder . Jason 's two spears , one in each hand , kept him from stumbling , and enabled him to feel his way among the hidden rocks ; although every instant , he expected that his companion and himself would go down the stream , together with the driftwood of shattered trees , and the carcasses of the sheep and cow . Down came the cold , snowy torrent from the steep side of Olympus , raging and thundering as if it had a real spite against Jason , or , at all events , were determined to snatch off his living burden from his shoulders . When he was half way across , the uprooted tree -LRB- which I have already told you about -RRB- broke loose from among the rocks , and bore down upon him , with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus . It rushed past , however , without touching him . But the next moment his foot was caught in a crevice between two rocks , and stuck there so fast , that , in the effort to get free , he lost one of his golden-stringed sandals . At this accident Jason could not help uttering a cry of vexation . `` What is the matter , Jason ? '' asked the old woman . `` Matter enough , '' said the young man . `` I have lost a sandal here among the rocks . And what sort of a figure shall I cut , at the court of King Pelias , with a golden-stringed sandal on one foot , and the other foot bare ! '' `` Do not take it to heart , '' answered his companion cheerily . `` You never met with better fortune than in losing that sandal .
It satisfies me XXXXX you are the very person whom the Speaking Oak has been talking about . ''
If about among as from in that to with without