Myths: Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, June 4, 2015)
Excerpt from Myths: Every Child Should Know"Yes, there he sat, on the back of the winged horse!"; Frontispiece; "Looking suddenly up, what should he behold but the figure of a stranger"; "'Behold it then! cried Perseus, in a voice like a blast of a trumpet"; "'Why, it appears to me' cried Quicksilver, taking the pitcher by the handle, 'that there is certainly more milk in the pitcher'"; "'And will you stay with us' asked Epimetheus, 'forever and ever?'"; "Ulysses stood up in the ship and shouted"; Then Orpheus, led Jason, up the banks of Haliaemon, and over the spurs of Pindus"; "'Give me the glittering horn' he answered. 'I pledge you my eye for a draught to the brim'"; "But Loki and Thor stood safely among the ruins"; "The beautiful god lay dead upon the field"About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.