nd by sending out his summons also to his
friends and allies. And it was as well answered as that of Menelaus had
been. There came to his standard Rhesus, with a great army from Thrace;
and Sarpedon, the greatest king in all Asia; and Memnon, king of
Aethiopia, with twenty thousand men--the hundred thousand Greeks were
not so many as the army of Priam. Then Agamemnon gave the order to sail
for Troy: and Ate laughed aloud, for her apple had brought upon mankind
the First Great War.

260

The little book of _Old Greek Folk Stories_, by
Josephine P. Peabody, is especially valuable,
not only for its fine versions of many of the
more interesting myths, but because it
supplements the dozen retold by Hawthorne in
his _Wonder-Book_ and _Tanglewood Tales_. The
two stories that follow are taken from that
book and are used by permission of and by
special arrangement with the publishers.
(Copyright: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.) It
is worth noticing that the idea of being able
to fly through the air successfully is found in
a very remote past, and that Daedalus discarded
his invention because of the tragedy related
below. Only a few years since, most people
looked upon one who tried to work out
practically the problem of flying as somewhat
"short" mentally. Hence the use of such efforts
for comic effect as in "Darius Green and His
Flying Machine" (No. 375).

ICARUS AND DAEDALUS

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

Among all those mortals who grew so wise that they learned the secrets
of the gods, none was more cunning than Daedalus.

He once built, for King Minos of Crete, a wonderful Labyrinth of winding
ways so cunningly tangled up and twisted around that, once inside, you
could never find your way out again without a magic clue. But the king's
favor veered with the wind, and one day he had his master architect
imprisoned in a tower. Daedalus managed to escape from his cell; but it
seemed impossible to leave the island, since every ship that came or
went was well guarded by order of the king.

At length, watching the sea gulls in the air,--the only creatures that
were sure of liberty,--he thought of a plan for himself and his young
son Icarus, who was captive with him.

Little by little, he gathered a store of feathers great and small. He
fastened these togeth