them that they were welcome to the whole, and
to twice as many more, if he had them, for the
sake of his delight at finding his son, and losing
the wicked Medea. And, indeed, if you had
seen how hateful was her last look, as the flam-
ing chariot flew upward, you would not have
wondered that both king and people should
think her departure a good riddance.

And now Prince Theseus was taken into great
favor by his royal father. The old king was
never weary of having him sit beside him on his
throne, (which was quite wide enough for two,)
and of hearing him tell about his dear mother,
and his childhood, and his many boyish efforts
to lift the ponderous stone. Theseus, however,
was much too brave and active a young man to
be willing to spend all his time in relating things
which had already happened. His ambition
was to perform other and more heroic deeds,
which should be better worth telling in prose
and verse. Nor had he been long in Athens be-
fore he caught and chained a terrible mad bull,
and made a public show of him, greatly to the
wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus
and his subjects. But pretty soon, he undertook

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