| Show alae old king did I 1 say that the people who lived there athens at that time were aim ole minded rather childlike they were in some ways ana noi so worldly wise as they might have been had they lived some thousand years later but they were neither simpletons simple tons nor altogether savages they were the foremost people of greece it was all ow to their king wise old that they had risen to a condition superior to that of the half barbarous tribes around them he had shown them how to sow barley and wheat and plant vineyards and he had taught them to depend upon these and their flocks and herda for food rather than upon the wild beasts of the chase he had persuaded them to lay aside many of their old cruel customs had eel them in families with each its own home and bad instructed them in the worship of the gods on the top of the acropolis they had built a little city and protected it with walls and fortifications ficat ions against any attack from their warlike neighbors and from this point as a center they had little by little extended their influence to the sea on one side and to the mountains on the other but strange to say they had not yet given a name to their city nor had they decided which one of the gods should be its protector james baldwin in st nicholas |
