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THE CHILDREN’S HOUR

IN TEN VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III The Children’s Hour

STORIES FROM THE CLASSICS

Selected & Arranged by Eva March Tappan

1907 NOTE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TO THE CHILDREN STORIES FROM HERODOTUS

Ladronius, The Prince of Thieves Arion and the Dolphin

STORIES FROM LIVY

Romulus, Founder of Rome How Horatius Held the Bridge How Cincinnatus Saved Rome The Story of Virginia The Sacrifice of Marcus Curtius

STORIES FROM OVID

The Miraculous Pitcher The Golden Touch The Pomegranate Seeds

OLD GREEK FOLK-STORIES

Orpheus and Eurydice Icarus and Dædalus Phaethon Niobe Pyramus and Thisbe

STORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR

The Apple of Discord The Quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles The Fight between Paris and Menelaus The Duel between Hector and Ajax The Death of Patroclus and the Battle of the River Vulcan Makes Armor for Achilles The Slaying of Hector The Funeral Games in Honor of Patroclus The Wooden Horse and the Fall of Troy

THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES

An Adventure with the Cyclops Circe’s Palace The Sirens—Scylla and Charybdis

ULYSSES IN ITHACA

Ulysses Lands on the Shore of Ithaca Ulysses at the House of the Swineherd The Vengeance of Ulysses

A. His Reception at the Palace B. The Trial of the Bow C. The Slaying of the Suitors D. Penelope Recognizes Ulysses

THE WANDERINGS OF THE TROJAN ÆNEAS

The Flight of Æneas from the Ruins of Troy Æneas’s Adventure with the Harpies Æneas in the Land of the Cyclops Æneas and Queen Dido The Funeral Games of Anchises Æneas’s Visit to the Lower World Æneas’s First Great Battle with the Latins Æneas Finally Conquers the Latins

End of Volume III