Cleopatra
CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE NILE II. THE PTOLEMIES III. ALEXANDRIA IV. CLEOPATRA'S FATHER V. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE VI. CLEOPATRA AND CAESAR VII. THE ALEXANDRINE WAR VIII. CLEOPATRA A QUEEN IX. THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI X. CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY
"Did he, indeed," said Golden-skin; "and how was that?"
"I will tell you," answered Slow-toes:--
THE STORY OF THE DEAD GAME AND THE JACKAL
"In a town called 'Well-to-Dwell' there lived a mighty hunter, whose
name was 'Grim-face,' Feeling a desire one day for a little venison, he
took his bow, and went into the woods; where he soon killed a deer. As
he was carrying the deer home, he came upon a wild boar of prodigious
proportions. Laying the deer upon the earth, he fixed and discharged an
arrow and struck the boar, which instantly rushed upon him with a roar
louder than the last thunder, and ripped the hunter up. He fell like a
tree cut by the axe, and lay dead along with the boar, and a snake also,
which had been crushed by the feet of the combatants. Not long
afterwards, there came that way, in his prowl for food, a Jackal, named
'Howl o' Nights,' and cast eyes on the hunter, the deer, the boar, and
the snake lying dead together. 'Aha!' said he, 'what luck! Here's a
grand dinner got ready for me! Good fortune can come, I see, as well as
ill fortune. Let me think:--the man will be fine pickings for a month;
the deer with the boar will last two more; the snake will do for
to-morrow; and, as I am very particularly hungry, I will treat myself
now to this bit of meat on the bow-horn,' So saying, he began to gnaw it
asunder, and the bow-string slipping, the bow sprang back, and resolved
Howl o' Nights into the five elements by death. That is my story,"
CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE NILE II. THE PTOLEMIES III. ALEXANDRIA IV. CLEOPATRA'S FATHER V. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE VI. CLEOPATRA AND CAESAR VII. THE ALEXANDRINE WAR VIII. CLEOPATRA A QUEEN IX. THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI X. CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY