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THE Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning to show the first signs of decay, and Hammurabi, the wise king of Babylon, had been dead and buried several centuries, when a small tribe of shepherds left their homes along the banks of the River Danube and wandered southward in search of fresh pastures. They called themselves Hellenes, after Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
"Mother don't like me talking to gentlemen." "You've been crying," said I. "No, I haven't," said Pyrrha, quite violently. "Mother been scolding you?" "I wish you'd let me by, sir." "What for?" "It's all your fault," burst out Pyrrha. "I didn't want you; no, nor him, either. What do you come and get me into trouble for?" "I haven't done anything, Betsy. Come now!"
In it Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha floated about for nine days till all men had been drowned, and as the waters went down the ship rested on Mount Parnassus, and Deucalion and Pyrrha came out and offered sacrifices to Jupiter. He was appeased, and sent Mercury down to ask what he should grant them.
Collins's Ode to Simplicity was written in the stanza of Milton's Nativity, and his exquisite unrimed Ode to Evening was a study in versification, after Milton's translation of Horace's Ode to Pyrrha, in the original meters. Shakspere began to be studied more reverently: numerous critical editions of his plays were issued, and Garrick restored his pure text to the stage.
He ridicules, indeed, those ideal politics of antiquity as totally unfit for practical realisation, and admits that though the question as to that which is absolutely the best form of government might be of some value in a new world, the basis of all alterations in existing governments should be the fact, that we take a world already formed to certain customs, and do not beget it, as Pyrrha or Cadmus did theirs, and by what means soever we may have the privilege to rebuild and reform it anew, we can hardly writhe it from its wonted bent, but we shall break all.
We glowed with a sense of her wrongs, and that afternoon we each went for a solitary walk at least, we started for a solitary walk but half an hour later we all met at the gate leading to Dill's meadows, and, in an explosion of laughter, acknowledged our secret design of meeting Pyrrha, and opening her eyes to Smugg's iniquity. The great surprise was still to come.
The most of mortals perished in the flood, The small remainder dies for want of food. Deucalion and Pyrrha were conveyed to the summit of Mount Parnassus, the highest mountain in Central Greece.
Last of all, Jupiter presented her with a sealed box, of which the lid was no sooner unclosed, than a multitude of calamities and evils of all imaginable sorts flew out, only Hope remaining at the bottom. Deucalion was the son of Prometheus and Pyrrha, his niece. They married. In their time a flood occurred, which as they imagined destroyed the whole human race; they were the only survivors.
Yet he had breakfasted Mary and an eggshell testified to that effect. We said nothing, and he began to bleat Horace. In a minute of silence I happened to hear what it was: it referred to a lady of the name of Pyrrha; the learned may identify the passage for themselves. The next day the same thing happened except that it was close on twelve before Smugg appeared.
In the much more powerful Papilio, Pieris, and Diadema it is generally the female only that mimics Danaida. In these cases the females often acquire more bright and varied colours than the male. Sometimes, as in Pieris pyrrha, conspicuously so. But colour is more frequent in males, and variations always seem ready for purposes of sexual or other selection.
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