Identifier: goldenporchbooko00hutc (find matches)
Title: Golden porch : a book of Greek fairy tales
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hutchinson, W. M. L. (Winifred Margaret Lambart), b. 1868
Subjects: Fairy tales -- Greece
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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was quickly made manifest, for that veryday the wind blew fair again for lolcos, so thatthe heroes longed to set sail for home withoutdelay. They listened not to any pleading, butmade Argo ready for sea, and put their islandbrides on board, and went their way. This wasthe last of their seafaring; the kindly breezenever failed till they dropped anchor once againin the haven where their good ship first floated. Here ends the story of Jasons quest for theGolden Fleece, for it needs not to tell the joyof his father and of all lolcos at his home-coming, nor how the brave comrades tookfarewell, when they had seen him receive thekingdom from Pelias, who durst not draw backfrom his oath to yield it. Jason and Medea werewedded with splendour and rejoicings, and there-after they had such happiness as seemed good tothe gods. But as for Pelias, although Jason didhim no violence, he did not escape the death thatwas to be dealt him by his own kindred. Forhis daughters heard that Medea had made old
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^_: -v THE >:i:w YORKPUBLIC 8RAR-Y ASTC TILDEN rC THE LAD WITH ONE SANDAL 197 Aeson young again by her spells, and entreatedher to do the like for their father. Then theenchantress killed an old ram before them, andcut it in pieces, and threw the pieces with magicherbs into a boiling cauldron, and when she hadsaid certain words over it, forthwith she drew outa lamb, alive and unhurt. And she gave a hand-ful of herbs to the daughters of Pelias, saying, Do to your father as you have seen me do tothis sheep, which has become a lamb again.The princesses did so, but Medea had given themcommon herbs, and they had not bethought themto ask what those words were which she said overthe cauldron, therefore they could not bring theirslain father to life again. Thus perished Pelias,even as the oracle had forewarned him, by a doomthat had its beginning in the coming to lolcos ofthe lad with one sandal. THE PANSY BABY CHAPTER I KING AIPYTOS of Arcadia was a lonelyman when he grew old, for he had

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