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I swear she did! That eye of hers is a corker." "What night are you to be initiated?" asked Ajax, with seeming irrelevance. "Next Toosday," replied the neophyte nervously. "You have never, I believe, been on a spree?" "Never, gen'lemen never." "They tell me," said Ajax softly, "that our village whisky, the sheep- herders' delight, will turn a pet lamb into a roaring lion."
"I kin pray first-rate when I git started," said the Baptist teamster. The prayer-meeting took place. Afterwards Ajax said to me "She's very small, is Whey-face, but somehow she seemed to fill the adobe." In the afternoon we had an adventure which gave us further insight into the character and temperament of the new schoolmarm.
He tole me o' the wedding. I got word the night I first went ter the village, an' that's why " she smiled through her tears "that's why I wore my teeth. They cost me twenty dollars, an' I keep 'em fer high days an' holidays." Ajax began to pace up and down the room. I heard him swearing to himself, and his fists were clenched.
First those who had got possession of the ship and set it on fire left and allowed the Grecians to retake it and extinguish the flames. Then the rest of the Trojans fled in dismay. Ajax, Menelaus, and the two sons of Nestor performed prodigies of valor. Hector was forced to turn his horses' heads and retire from the enclosure, leaving his men entangled in the fosse to escape as they could.
Therefore turn, and charge at the foe, to stand or fall as is the game of war; whoever shall bring Patroclus, dead though he be, into the hands of the Trojans, and shall make Ajax give way before him, I will give him one half of the spoils while I keep the other. He will thus share like honour with myself."
"But the motorboat!" cried Ruth, who had conquered her desire to flee to the cabin, and hide her eyes and ears from such nerve-racking sights and sounds. "Where is the Ajax and Mr. Sneed and Russ?" she faltered. "They'll probably be coming in now," the captain said, but he did not take the trouble to look around and see. "We can't wait for them in this wind," he went on.
Wherever the circumstances admit, Homer is directly translated; e. g. the burial of those that fell at Heraclea is described after the model of the burial of Patroclus, and under the helmet of Marcus Livius Stolo, the military tribune who fights with the Istrians, lurks none other than the Homeric Ajax; the reader is not even spared the Homeric invocation of the Muse.
Then the heroes who had fought, and the gallants who had not had the luck yet, but were eager for it, came pleasantly clanking in, well girt to demolish ox and sheep, like Ajax, in lack of loftier carnage. The rector said grace, and the Marquis amen, and in less than two minutes every elbow was up, and every mouth at business. There was very little talking for the first half hour.
An oracle declared that Troy could not be taken without him and his arrows; at the end of the siege, as Achilles and Ajax were dead, Philoctetes, outraged and abandoned, became necessary to the Greeks. How could they win him over to rejoin them? Odysseus his bitterest foe takes with him Neoptolemus, the young son of Achilles.
It was well aimed and struck Ajax, where the belts that bore his sword and shield crossed each other on the breast. The double guard prevented its penetrating and it fell harmless. Then Ajax, seizing a huge stone, one of those that served to prop the ships, hurled it at Hector. It struck him in the neck and stretched him on the plain.
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