| Show MEDUSAS MEDUSA S HEAD A Charming and Easy His History Les Les- Les son Me-dusa Me maid-en maid celebrated celebrated cel- cel was a love ly ed e-brat-ed for her ful beau go gold gold-en en d-en hair Her mir ers Ing in in ill inthe the po-et-ic po cense li-cense which all ers lov use told her that she sur-passed sur not nol on on-ly all aU er oth-er tal mor-tal wo-men wo but ven e-ven the pi lym ses god-des-ses them It is not at all surprising sur-pris- sur ing that sa Me-du-sa be all alt this but she should have kept her be to her stead In-stead of ing do-ing so how-ev-er how she re-ma re marked re-marked k d one day Ina in ina ina a dis ly ble au tone of voice ti ful than that she was more ner Mi Now this may have been true e nough and bly a was but i iwas it was a a. ish fool-ish thing to say nevertheless the nev-er-the- less for it was a tor ous fact thano that tha no god-dess god would stand for that sort of talk ner Ml who was no exception exception exception ex- ex tion cep-tion to the rule re revenged h herself herself her her- r- r self by Ing chang-Ing sas Me ambrosial ambrosial ambrosial bro am sial locks to in-to a tan tan-gle of writh ln serpents er Aft-er that of course it was all up with sa Me-du-sa as a heart break er She was so hid e that who ev set eyes on her was me ly turned to stone Finding that she could no long-er long charm men by her ty beau she gan be-gan to take pleasure in ri pet them and ft tt was no not long fore be-fore she had bout a-bout the entrance en en- trance to her cave cave e e nough u stat-u-ary to stock an art gal ler to sent Pre the King of that try that try de that sa Me-du-sa was a nuisance nuisance nui nut sance and of a large r ward re-ward to y an-y man who would put her out of the way But Dut it was such a ger dan un-der-tak-Ing un that no one cared t to vol-un-teer vol un un-til us se came along This young man man had long been to in-to the he ro sir ous of go Ing ness I and thought this a splendid splendid splendid did tun por o More he had a y ver-y ingenIous in I ous plan by which which- he hoped to get th the better of the haired ky la He pro-cured pro a a large mir am and I car ned It to In-to sas sa's cave fo for he knew that a wo man ev-en ev t though ugh she may lose y ev-er-y er oth-er tri but of her sex will ways al-ways re tam he her van l And so it was with du Me sa She could not re slat the pulse Im to look to In-to the thc mir and se see er r y an-y of her mer for-mer beau t re While she did this Perseus Per Per- se us guiding himself by her reflection re flee tion In the glass drew his sword an and cut off her her head Thus at one me stroke stroke he gained the prom pron ward re anc and for he he- ac a great u tion ro To be sure It was a mean trick t to plan on a la-dy la but if you want t to get head a-head In this world you must no nobe not be too tlc par tlc par Isaac Anderson In Ne New Tork ork Heralds Herald |
