A FIGHTING KING
citizens; and, to the sound of harps, hymns were sung by a choir. For very many years these festivals were kept up by the grateful people of Sikyon.
And, girls and boys, if ever you see wrong done in the world by rich men, or by statesmen, or governments, you will, I hope, resist the evil thing with hearts as bold as that of Aratus, who scaled the cliffs and feared no tyrant on the face of the earth.
A FIGHTING KING
THE river ran by with a roar. Gray twilight covered the earth.
"There are some men on the other side of the river," said one of the women; "talk to them."
"Ho-o-o-o-o!" shouted the young man. 'Help us across the water. We have the little prince Pyrrhus (Pir-rus) with us. The enemy are pursuing us!"
"Hi-i-i-i-i!" came back the answer from the farther bank. But neither party could hear the words of the other.
At length one of the young men tore a strip of bark from a tree, and, with a sharp piece of iron, he scratched a few words on the bark, saying that he and his friends were guarding the nurses of the infant prince, whom they had rescued from a
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