Show r J i I IG r r re r J I a G T j z az a v 1 t I a f f Gi F b s r Yi e iEr iEry d t 5 p t k P 0 1 E iJ y g U J Jl i 1 i ir y 7 S I Ji 3 1 j i io k j j r s 1 o f fJ J I fJ r v 2 i 11 i i K d r e n I Iu 4 a P i O Oo o p o o o a o xO o p o oi i r u u How ow a ea r n nr e Amer American e mer r ican r ca n Boy o Saved av e oa a Being ein of o the th e Mythological o o Ic a l Per Period P er r 1 iod o from rein Awful u Bondage on a s e i iDo 0 YOU FOU know what a Hamadryad Hamad ad is t l ly y DO That i is a question q which would puzzle j 1 many max people pee Ie and if you look in the dic die dictionary dictionary at page eight hundred and thir thirteen thirteen thirteen teen you yon will find the definition as follows A fabled to live lire and die with the tree she inhabited the oak being considered the tree pre preferred preferred preferred This does not Dot explain that she was fastened to the tree in spine some me manner not Dot being free fr as was wasa a dryad another sort of a but it an answers answers the question If H the question had been put to Marcus Aurelius he could have answered it at once f for o r what wh a the he di did d not no t know about ancient Greek fables ables f was not worth remembering Albeit he was only 14 years old He same of old Massachusetts Puri Puritan Puritan Puritan tan stock and loved to read about his distant ancestors ances ancestors ancestors tors the brave bravo men woo who three centuries ago invaded the now DOW Western world and swapped glass beads ba d s at sixpence enee per par per gross for valuable real estate with the th e innocent and bloodthirsty savages r rHAD HAD GREAT ANCESTORS Ai CESTO Among his hie grandfathers grand athers and grandmothers were such names as Faithful Williams Jack ack J Jackson ackISOn son bon Jones Eli Black and many others as odd add and striking but of late latO the family has adopted more modern names which are easier to print on a small visiting card Marcus was so clever that at 15 he expected e to enter college and when I say that he could read Greek and Latin hatin as easily as you or I can read English you ou can can readily conceive what gifts gins ho no had and arid perhaps forgive him for being somewhat conceited He never called a fly y by its common name but referred to it as a domestics a mosquito he called c a bedbug clines and instead of exclaiming that it was hot he said Dear Dearma me ma how much caloric there is in the 1 I Therefore as you may moy easily imagine he ne was not beloved by the other boys in that street who used very ery ordinary threadbare thread are English Marcus had a father who was not so learned as his son having had to work for a 8 living but he was wasa wasa a man of inventive genius who was always pottering over oyer some new Dew device but Marcus tarsus rarely paid any attention to his fathers pursuits so 50 one day when he was told that they were now suddenly enriched enrich d beyond the dreams of Avarice herself he ne was sur surprised surprised surprised to think that a man who could not tell a Greek verb verD from a cuneiform tablet was able to amass wealth WANTED TO VISIT GREECE r I 3 Cr r had invented a combination of wheels and cranks cr nb which would automatically turn an ice ies cream freezer a coffee mill grind meat moat shell corn sift xebec ashes peel potatoes beat carpets turn a grindstone pump water saw wood and chop fodder and so instantaneous us was is i ids success so enormous the sales that every family in in the land soon had a elf acting ing Automatic un as it was called Mr was kept busy putting his money into banks trust companies mortgages and the th dike 1 k for months but finally he had to Lire a man just j to todo todo do that alone and he spent his time traveling abroad He bought a steam yacht to travel in and he visited many strange out way places but bat he soon tired of traveling and re returned returned returned turned hoi home where he could get the papers every morning One morning Marcus suddenly decided that he ought to visit Greece and see the mystic land of Demosthenes Socrates and Pericles the haunt of satyrs dryads and an centaurs the birthplace of Art Athletics and Architecture re the home of Sappho and Orp eue and when Marcus resolved to do a thing thin it was soon sewn an accomplished fact OFF FOR HIS TRIP He asked his hie father to lend him kiln the Aphrodite for that was the tile Wane of the yacht and an very appropriately appropriately appropriately named for a s voyage among among mon the th isles of Greece Mr J r readily consented for far he wished Marcus to see gee the world and learn that thit it was not entirely managed by Greek Greet and ing men So tho yacht was Was hastily prepared and soon Marcus arcus was at ut sea His first effort was teas to reform the diction dici on of the orders given by y Captain to the crew but while preparing a anew new set se of oo commands he lie became very seasick and gave up the attempt as Ae well wail as many other things and then took to his hie berth When he recovered he had forgotten for forgotten forgotten gotten all about the captains language and was rues much interested in iu the daily events on shipboard When the Aphrodite entered the Mediterranean Sea and steamed rapidly along the shores of Spain France Italy and finally nally Greece h he had indeed plenty to think about for he found that Captain and all of the crew firmly believed in har harpies harpies pies sirens 8 re e mermaids satyrs sa vampires vampire sea serpents ser serpents ser serpents centaur and andin in fact every fable that the an anti ti i Ii r W c I r I J JI JW V Vr W 0 q l i isy r I 4 I Y J sy f syl fi Vl 1 f ff l 4 a ar fj J f it r L G GI I Ut r 1 m If i r h ht 1 irv l r t P z 16 I K l 9 0 A 1 l 1 u I t lj to v t oJ I II is h I 1 f w L CN s su M h s u i 11 n o 3 L Y Q j jr 4 7 m rf v f F A I 1 J I Z E O OrI r fj 3 rr I w s pJ r A r d YI J 1 r rr i rI oN r v 2 X A f J r a aim o 4 9 3 ls e J 4 r l U to tor P f 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thc world has passed on and thrown them aside for newer humbugs At Athens Marcus us went ashore and inspected the grand gr nd and imposing ruins of the First National Bank of Hellas the comedy theatre where first uttered the famous joke about the goat eating tomato cans the Art Gallery Gallory Parthenon Parthen n most wonderful temple onearth on onearth onearth earth the Ef n and a lot of other things the names nameS of Hof which are are simply too hard nard for forme me to spell but the modern Greeks ks were too much for our little Marcus In the first place he could not understand a word that thoy uttered utter d and they laughed at him bun when he hesp sp e tha genuine e Greek to them Beside that the ti they gave him counterfeit money shortened change hange n sold soli him spurious ancient coins and statuettes which they said had nad been dug up tip in the Acropolis but which are made in Newark INT N J by machinery and they put garlic in his food t i C R ROUND HISTORIC PLACES Captain Ca P taut Q declared A hem them to be l ta a s set of oi robbing storekeepers skins stars and brigands and de decided decided decided that he would world rather associate with witha a lot of auctioneers any time But he was compelled much against his Tiis will win to employ a Greek pilot named to guide the ship among the many beautiful islands of the archipelago They called him Straps for sake and he was wasa wasa a typical modern Greek wearing a nice white pleated skirt like a ballet girls and with cotton ribbons laced around his legs He lie said his forefathers were Spartan kings but lie be looked like Solomon Levy They soon left let Athens and steamed down the coast crossed over to the Island of Aegina and then east eastward eastward eastward ward to the tho myriad islanded sea where for days doss they cruised sailing on sapphire waters along myr heights crowned with gnarled oaks among th shadows s adoW of which gleamed pillars of ivory yellowed wed to an ivory tint with age forgotten ruins temples of and palaces p laces now crumbling into late dust in the clinging embrace of the vine vina and the ivy the way Marcus described them in a aletter otter letter to his nis father and which was teas published in the tha evening paper town THE VESSEL AGROUND Captain noticed almost at once that a along along long Jew lew rakish craft followed f them and was frequently fre frequently frequently visible in the offing but bat he presumed she was a sponge fishers vessel for the sponge is cap captured captured captured in these waters It has however a pirate ship filled with desperadoes gathered together by bytho tho tl ph own pilot waiting for a chance chalice to attack tie tJ e yacht and carry away the millionaires son t for far r a heavy ransom had hadnot hadnot not yep v seen a fitting opportunity for giving the signal which whack was w s toy to be a shot from the yachts brass gun guD but he ne knew mew the time would come and was was mere merely One afternoon afternoon when they the y were passing P assin g a beau beag beautiful t f ul island ratan covered with Hence dense forest a silent de deserted deserted sorted spot the yacht t suddenly ran aground The Greek T allot ilot pretended to be much annoyed and declared de declared that help must be summoned To this end he ne ordered the signal gun to be fired but to his surprise some hours elapsed before his desperadoes despera desperadoes desperadoes does appeared for they had also gone aground and not by accident While the yacht lay bow on to to t the shore Marcus decided de to land and explore the island nd with his camera PHOTOGRAPHED THE MAIDEN c cAs As gs the th e cap captain taro knew the t h e place p lace was uninhabited he be made mad no objection n and the Greek pilot thought that his crew crew ew could capture the lad more easily inthe in inthe inthe the they y arrived Marcus strolled away through the oak gal groves where the bulbul the hal halcyon halcyon cyon and other strange birds flitted through the gloom and filled the air with melody All 1111 around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him among the gnarled oaks and olive trees were prostrate marble columns and great stones show ir irr i that once upon a time long ago stately build buildings buildings ings lags had reared their lofty colonnades here iere where chere now all was teas silence and desert Suddenly something some something something thing moving mooing on the gray trunk of an an old oak caught his eye and then he saw a beautiful female form half concealed in the shadow of the leaves He hastened hast led forward but at his approach it van vanished vanished an f He waited a long time fer for the form farm to reappear but at last s giving up the task he returned to the yacht During the evening he told the pilot of what he be had seen PLANNED HER RELEASE That was a Hamadryad exclaimed I y frequent these lonely islands island but they are supposed to be extinct I never will believe iu in such things replied Marcus angrily You gou toll toil me fables when I bask ask for f r facts Im m telling it to you straight said the Greek Im sure sure it was teas a Hamadryad F P Must Mus a been one of them things th or ar a monkey mon monkey key added Captain Coptain Marcus reflected that perhaps s after all the nymphs were not all aU ex es extinct extinct and ha h arranged a plan of action for the mor morrow morrow morron row ron Rising early and d taking tabing a large hand mir mirror mirror mir mirror he stealthily repaired to t the same spot and almost al almost almost most instantly detected the Hamadryad in the tree She was teas combing her hair and singing a sweet but hut plaintive song Before he advanced he be took a pho photograph photograph of her in fact t he took two but then as he hews ws vv s changing t in g his she saw him and van can vanished an raked like dike a squirrel Marcus was sure she had bad slipped into a large crevice and that the tree was hollow but instead of seeking for far her he placed the mirror in iu the cleft of two true limbs and concealed himself in the laurel bushes below r rAfter After waiting an hour he saw her head emerge and then asslie as she spied the mirror her ner shoulders fol followed followed lowed as she reached for it The Hamadryad could not resist r the little looking loo ng glass ass being a woman and in she was so absorbed in gazing at atthe atthe atthe the reflection of her lovely face that she forgot everything eV else and neither saw nor heard Marcus i had seized her She struggled and screamed then but out after a time she listened to his protests and nally became quite quit passive convinced c that he lie would not harm her ber Come down upon the ground and talk tall to me said he heX X I cannot I am fastened to this tree she re replied replied plied See Marcus looked and saw that a long Iong thin rubber rubb r like band of ll flesh esh attached her to the bark of the oak She added None can can release me but the My sis sisters sisters sisters were all let loose Joose long since and wandered away with kith the but I have never neer been so fortunate f For Por a thousand years I have nave sat in inthis inthis inthis this oak and seen the seasons come and go goW WAITING W FOR FORTHE THE ELVES Where are these inquired Marcus Down in the earth Do you see that little opening open opening opening ing in those brown rocks 1 That is the entrance to their subterranean home Til Tn catch one and compel him to to release you yon med Marcus That is impossible she replied No one could capture c an elf I They are are far too wary tAn American can trap anything returned Mar Marcus Marcus cus Ill bit het t you yon Ill have bare one before night They only come out at night aid said the he Hama Hamadryad Hamadryad Hamadryad dryad as she arranged her bang looking in the th mir mirror mirror Well tWell 1 ell before morning then Just wait They Th y conversed all the afternoon the Hama Hamadryad HamadrYad Hamadryad dryad tell him all she knew about the mysterious denizens orthe o the Grecian forests relating tales of the thep past p when the island was filled with people who wIo brought gifts of fruit frait and nd flowers to the wood nymphs n phs but she added they did not bring mir mirrors mn r rs MADE A CAPTURE catch you and put you in a dime mu neu n nowadays said Marcus Z and then he told her of what had hod happened in the world since she was teas a baby Hamadryad When she seemed rather bored by history he began to tell her about department depart department department ment stores millinery jewels and corsets high heeled shook sheds and laces la es diamonds and silk petticoats until at last she begged him nim to think of some some way of releasing her ner so 50 that she might go with him nim to the lands where such things were to be seen on the bargain counters He promised readily for he had already planned it all When at last along sunset he bade her farewell for a a few hours she was vas 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