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Ancient Troy.

We are indebted to Miss Virginia Quick, of Greenville, for the piece of pottery from ancient Troy.

As we look as this stone from Troy we can almost imagine that we are back in 1184 B.C. Helen, the wife of King Menelaus, of Sparta, has been carried off by Paris, the son of King Priam, of Troy. The states of Greece have besieged Troy xxx for ten years to avenge the insult. At last, the Greeks built a huge wooden horse in which were soldiers. They appeared to retire from the siege and the Trojans, in joy, dragged the horse in the city. At night the Greek soldiers came out and the city was destroyed.

Homer has told the story of Troy in two great epic poems, the Iliad, and the Odyssey. Every boy should carefully read each poem. Virgil recounts the escape of Aeneas from Troy and his wanderings until he became the ancestor of the Roman kings.

Homer has a version of the America'x boy's expression, "Put up or shut up!" In the discourse with Achilles and Aeneas, Aeneas said:

"Then cease we now, like babbling fools, to prate
Here in the centre of the coming fight.
Terms of reproach we both might find, whose weight
Would sink a galley of a hundred oars;
For glibly runs the tongue, and can at will
Give utt'rance to discourse in ev'ry vein;
Wide is the range of language; and such words
As one may speak, another may return.
What need that we should insults interchange?
Like women, who some paltry qaurrel wage,
Scolding and brawling in the public street,
And in opprobrious terms their anger vent,
Some true, some false; for so their rage suggests.
With words thou shalt not turn me from the field,
Till we have met in arms; then try we now
Each other's prowess with our brazen spears."

[Black and white photograph of three statues]
THE PERRY PICTURES. 1167
BOSTON EDITION
COPYRIGHT, 1924. BY EUGENE A. PERRY.
PARIS, AENEAS, WOUNDED TROJAN, AEGINA MARBLES, MUNICH.

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