of them girded on a sword, to defend them
selves against the perils of the way. When the
husbandmen, at whose farm houses they sought
hospitality, needed their assistance in the harvest
field, they gave it willingly; and Queen Tele-
phassa (who had done no work in her palace,
save to braid silk threads with golden ones)
came behind them to bind the sheaves. If pay-
ment was offered, they shook their heads, and
only asked for tidings of Europa.

(v There are bulls enough in my pasture," the
old farmers would reply; "but I never heard of
one like this you tell me of. A snow-white bull
with a little princess on his back! Ho! ho! I
ask your pardon, good folks; but there never
was such a sight seen hereabouts."

At last, when his upper lip began to have the
down on it, Phoenix grew weary of rambling
hither and thither to no purpose. So, one day,
when they happened to be passing through a
pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat
himself down on a heap of moss.

"I can go no farther," said Phoenix. "It is a
mere foolish waste of life, to spend it, as we do,
in always wandering up and down, and nevei

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