youth with a leopard's skin over his shoulders,,
and each hand grasping a spear. Jason per-
ceived, too, that the man stared particularly at
his feet, one of which, you remember, was bare,
while the other was decorated with his father's
golden-stringed sandaL

"Look at him! only look at him!" said the
man to his next neighbor. "Do you see? He
wears but one sandal!"

Upon this, first one person, and then another,
began to stare at Jason, and every body seemed
to be greatly struck with something in his as-
pect; though they turned their eyes much oftener
towards his feet than to any other part of his
figure. Besides, he could hear them whispering
to one another.

"One sandal! One sandal!" they kept say-
ing. "The man with one sandal! Here he is
at last! Whence has he come? What does
he mean to do? What will the king say to
the one-sandalled man?"

Poor Jason was greatly abashed, and made up
his mind that the people of lolchos -vere exceed-
ingly ill bred, to take such public notice of an
accidental deficiency in his dress. Meanwhile,

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