Up sprouted, also, a great many trumpeters;
and with the first breath that they drew, they
put their brazen trumpets to their lips, and
sounded a tremendous and ear-shattering blast;
so that the whole space, just now so quiet and
solitary, reverberated with the clash and clang
of arms, the bray of warlike music, and the
shouts of angry men. So enraged did they ah ??
look, that Cadmus fully expected them to put
the whole world to the sword. How fortunate
would it be for a great conqueror, if he could get
a bushel of the dragon's teeth to sow!

"Cadmus," said the same voice which he had
before heard, "throw a stone into the midst of
the armed men."

So Cadmus seized a large stone, and, flinging
it into the middle of the earth army, saw it strike
the breastplate of a gigantic and fierce-looking
warrior. Immediately on feeling the blow, he
seemed to take it for granted that somebody
had struck him; and, uplifting his weapon, he
smote his next neighbor a blow that cleft his
helmet asunder, and stretched him on the ground.
In an instant, those nearest the fallen warrior
began to strike at one another with their swords,

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