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Odysseus
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Æ’olus
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1. Years ago, in a far-off country, there lived a great man named Odysseus. He did so many wonderful deeds that thisbook might be filled with stories about him. I will tell you one ofthem now. Some day you will read others.
4. At one time he came to the island where Æolus, the king of the winds, lived. Æolus kept all the winds shut up, and only let them out, one at a time, when he wished a wind to blow.
3. But one thing after another kept himback, and he was ten years on the way. In this time he went to many strange lands and saw many queer things and people.
2. Odysseus fought bravely in a long war. When the war was over, he took his men in his ship and started home.
Odysseus
5. He ruled the north wind with its snow and ice, and thesouth wind with its flowers; the east wind, which brings rain forthe plants, and the west wind, which blows the leaves from the trees.
6. King Æolus was glad to see Odysseus and to hear about his great deeds.
7. When Odysseus sailed away in his ship, the king gave him aqueer present. It was a great bag tied with a silver string.
8. You could never guess what was in it, so I shall have to tell you. All the winds but one were shut up in this bag. That one was the east wind, which would take the ship home.
9. “Do not open the bag while you are on the ship,” said theking. “If you do, the winds will rush out and drive you far away over the seas. It will be a long time before you reach your home.”
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10. You may be sure that Odysseus took great care of the bag. He told his men not to touch it.
11. The men would look at it and wonder what was in it. They thought it must hold a great treasure.
12. The east wind blew for nine days and nights. The ship dashed through the waves on its way home.
13. All this time Odysseus did not dare sleep, for fear something might happen to the ship. At last he grew so tired that he fell asleep.
14. Then one of the men said: “Let us peep into the bag and see what it holds. Odysseus will never know that we have looked.”
The other men agreed, so they untied the silver string.
15. Whiz! Out rushed the winds with a roar. They dashedgreat waves over the ship, and swept some of the bad sailors into the sea.
Out rushed the winds with a roar.
16. You know that one wind can do much harm. Think what a storm there was when all the winds at once blew as hard as they could!
had done. He could not put the winds back into the bag. It was all he could do to keep the ship from being dashed to pieces.
18. The storm lasted many days. The winds blew the ship far away over the seas, and many years passed before Odysseus reached his home.
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