Po-no-kah: An Indian Tale of Long Ago, Page 1903M. A. Donohue, 1903 - 150 pages |
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Aethra answered Ariadne arms Athens behold Bessie Big Tom blow Bouncer brave brother cabin called club creature Crete cried dear enemy Eurystheus Eustace Bright eyes face Farmer Hedden father fearful feel feet fellow felt forest goblet grew ground half hand head heard heart Hennessy Hercules horn hunt Indian instant Julius Cæsar Ka-te-qua King Aegeus King Minos king's knew labyrinth laughed little Kitty looked loved maiden Medea mighty Hercules Minotaur monster Mother Earth mountains neighbor Hedden never night once pale-faces pine-tree Pittheus Po-no-kah poor Prince Theseus Procrustes Pygmies roar Rudolph and Kitty rushed sails savages seemed shouted skin smiled sobbed soon squaws stone stood stories stranger stream strides strong sword Talus tell terrible thing told Tom's tomahawk took tribe Troezene turn vessel voice warrior whispered wigwam wild hope wonder young youth
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Page 55 - Antaeus presented a very grand spectacle. There he used to stand, a perfect mountain of a man, with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers, and his one vast eye (which was as big as a cart-wheel, and placed right in the center of his forehead) giving a friendly wink to the whole nation at once.
Page 45 - And O, my good little people, you will perhaps see, one of these days, as I do now, that every human being who suffers anything evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster was.
Page 41 - in the famous labyrinth which Daedalus built before he made himself a pair of wings, and flew away from our island like a bird. That Daedalus was a very cunning workman; but of all his artful contrivances, this labyrinth is the most wondrous. Were we to take but a few steps from the doorway, we might wander about all our lifetime, and never find it again. Yet in the very center of this labyrinth is the Minotaur; and, Theseus, you must go thither to seek him.
Page 38 - ... tender-hearted maiden, and looked at these poor doomed captives with very different feelings from those of the iron-breasted King Minos. She really wept, indeed, at the idea of how much human happiness would be needlessly thrown away, by giving so many young people, in the first bloom and rose blossom of their lives, to be eaten up by a creature who, no doubt, would have preferred a fat ox, or even a large pig, to the plumpest of them. And when she beheld the brave, spirited figure of Prince...
Page 5 - Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator's, but in harmony with their inherent germ) transform themselves, and reassume the shapes which they might be supposed to possess in the pure childhood of the world.
Page 57 - ... inhabitants whirling through the air. He might have set his immense foot upon a multitude; and when he took it up again, there would have been a pitiful sight, to be sure But, being the son of Mother Earth, as they likewise were, the Giant gave them his brotherly kindness, and loved them with as big a love as it was possible to feel for creatures so very small. And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold. He was always ready to do them...
Page 37 - ... every soul of them happy, by bidding them go free as the summer wind. But this immitigable Minos cared only to examine whether they were plump enough to satisfy the Minotaur's appetite. For my part, I wish he himself had been the only victim; and the monster would have found him a pretty tough one. One after another, King Minos called these pale, frightened youths and sobbing maidens to his footstool, gave them each a poke in the ribs with his...
Page 21 - King ^Egeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild enough. for a person who was accused of plotting against his life. He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the young stranger should be admitted into his presence. The goblet was set on a table beside the king's throne ; and a fly, meaning just to sip a little from the brim, immediately tumbled into it, dead. Observing this, Medea looked round at the nephews...
Page 59 - ... happiness. Let us be kind to the old fellow. Why, if Mother Earth had not been very kind to ourselves, we might all have been Giants too." On all their holidays, the Pygmies had excellent sport with Antaeus. He often stretched himself out at full length on the ground, where he looked like the long ridge of a hill ; and it was a good hour's walk, no doubt, for a shortJegged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant.
Page 68 - You are a very discourteous Giant," answered the stranger quietly, "and I shall probably have to teach you a little civility, before we part. As for my name, it is Hercules. I have come hither because this is my most convenient road to the garden of the Hesperides, whither I am going to get three of the golden apples for King Eurystheus." "Caitiff, you shall go no farther!