have been wonderfully strong in his arms, to be
sure. But the secret of the matter was, that the
brazen bulls were enchanted creatures, and that
Jason had broken the spell of their fiery fierce
ness by his bold way of handling them. And,
ever since that time, it has been the favorite
method of brave men, when danger assails them,
to do what they call "taking the bull by the
horns; "and to gripe him by the tail is pretty
much the same thing that is, to throw aside
fear, and overcome the peril by despising it.
It was now easy to yoke the bulls, and to har-
ness them to the plough, which had lain rusting
on the ground for a great many years gone by;
so long was it before any body could be found
capable of ploughing that piece of land. Jason,
I suppose, had been taught how to draw a fur-
row by the good old Chiron, who, perhaps, used
to allow himself to be harnessed to the plough
At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in
breaking up the greensward; and, by the time
that the moon was a quarter of her journey up
the sky, the pbughed field lay before him, a
large tract of black earth, ready to be sown with
the dragon's teeth. So Jason scattered then??

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