ite bones in a
golden urn, and over it with great stones did they raise a mighty
mound that all might see where he rested.

Yet still was the warfare between Greeks and Trojans not ended.

To Achilles death came in a shaft from the bow of Paris. By a poisoned
arrow driven at venture and at dark midnight from the bow of an
outcast leper was fair Paris slain. While winter snow lay white on
Ida, in Helen's arms did his life ebb away.

Then came there a day when the Greeks burned their camp and sailed
homeward across the gray water.

Behind them they left a mighty horse of wood, and the men of Troy came
and drew it into the city as trophy and sign of victory over those who
had made it. But inside the horse were hidden many of the bravest
warriors of Greece, and at night, when the Trojans feasted, the Greeks
came out of their hiding-place and threw open the gates.

And up from the sea came the Greek host, and in fire and in blood fell
the city of Troy.

Yet did not Helen perish. Back to his own kingdom by the sea Menelaus
took her, to reign, in peace, a queen, she who had brought grief and
death to so many, and to the city of Troy unutterable woe.

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER

ADAPTED BY JEANIE LANG

I

WHAT HAPPENED IN ITHACA WHILE ODYSSEUS WAS AWAY

While Odysseus was fighting far away in Troyland, his baby son grew to
be a big boy. And when years passed and Odysseus did not return, the
boy, Telemachus, grew to be a man.

Telemachus loved his beautiful mother, Penelope, but his heart always
longed for the hero father whom he could only dimly remember. As time
went on, he longed more and more, for evil things came to pass in the
kingdom of Odysseus.

The chiefs and lords of Ithaca admired Penelope for her beauty. They
also coveted her money and her lands, and when Odysseus did not
return, each one of these greedy and wicked men wished to marry her
and make his own all that had belonged to brave Odysseus.

"Odysseus is surely dead," they said, "and Telemachus is only a lad
and cannot harm us."

So they came to the palace where Penelope and Telemachus lived, and
there they stayed, year in, year out, feasting and drinking and
wasting the goods of Odysseus. Their roughness and greed troubled
Penelope, but still more did they each one daily torment her by rudely
asking: "Wilt thou marry me?"

At last she fell on a plan to stop them from talking to her of
marriage.

In the palace hall she set up a g