once, Cadmus fancied he saw something glisten
very brightly, first at one spot, -then at another,
and then at a hundred and a thousand spots
together. Soon he perceived them to be the
steel heads of spears, sprouting up every where
like so many stalks of grain, and continually
growing taller and taller. Next appeared a vast
number of bright sword blades, thrusting them-
selves up in the same way. A moment after-
wards, the whole surface of the ground was
broken by a multitude of polished brass hel-
mets, coming up like a crop of enormous beans.
So rapidly did they grow, that Cadmus now dis-
cerned the fierce countenance of a man beneath
every one. In short, before he had time to think
what a wonderful affair it was, he beheld an
abundant harvest of what looked like human
beings, armed with helmets and breastplates,
shields, swords, and spears; and before they
were well out of the earth, they brandished their
weapons, and clashed them one against another,
seeming to think, little while as they had yet
lived, that they had wasted too much of life
without a battle. Every tooth of the dragon had
produced ono of these sons of deadly mischief.

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