Show DEATH WHERE IS THY STING socrates spent the day on which he be was to drink fhe hem hemlock loek discoursing in the prison with his friends his weeping wife with her child in her arms had been sent home at his request when the overcome by grief brought the poison in a cup socrates asked what lie he was to do the answer was that he be need only walk about till his legs grew heay and then lie down holding the cup to his lips quite readily liv h drank off the poison when his friends saw that he be had finished the draught they could no ion longer er restrain their tears socrates alone retained his calmness what is this strange outcry he said 1 I have heard that a man should die in in pence peace be quiet then and have patience ile he walked about until his legs began to fail and then lay down the poison mounted gradually till he was stiff and cold but before he be lost the igler of ersh he said arito I 1 owe a cock to will you remember to pay the daba the debt shall be paid said arito Is there e anything else there was no answer A C benson H F P W Tat tatham harn men of Ali might glit |