The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01

shore He did, indeed, run like a rabbit, but the
Siren seeing a form fit under the trees, darted
after him. He had a good start but those long legs
could cover the ground much faster than his own,
and she was Just behind him when he reached his
shoe boat drew it into the water and pushed OF.
Instead of wadng in after him, as might natural
" have been expected the Siren halted on the strand
and then broke into a loud peal Of laughter. In
fact she laughed so hard that she fell down and
rolled on the sand. Andrew, of course, could not
but be surprised at such actions but when she
called out: "Come back, boy. 1 can not harm you
now, for you have done what no mortal has done IN
ten thousand years. You have made the Siren
laugh That boat is enough to make rhinoceros
laugh his skin off p he padded slowly to the shore
and stepped out He was still a trihe uncertain yet
he had often read in Greek books that this was more
true than anything else written about slrens mat
if she laughed a man was quite safe.
"Where on earth did you get that funny boatF
she asked as soon as he was ashore.
"I found it floating on the river near my home!
"Where is your homer she inquired.
Thinking that it was improbable that she had
ever heard of his town. even Of the State OF which
it is the capital he simply said
81 live in America"
aAmerical / never heard of America Where is
it! In far away India, or bleak Lydia, or perhaps
In that distant dread realm of the HyperbOreans
where the night is a half year in lengthl Stranger
things than shoes Of giants are there, as Hercules
once told me-"
ooh, no." replied Andrew, seeing at once that
the Siren was not posted on things that had hap
pened during the last thousand years or so. "This
is a new country only discovered few years ago,
about four hundred or So"
"Ah, I seel" said the Siren "Of course, I
couldn't know about anything that has happened
lately for nobody has been here as recently that
you know. In fact have been very lonely Of late,
and really have thought sometimes Of restoring to-
life few Of the mariners who came ashore here in
former days"
'Where are theyl" asked Andrew feeling quite
confident what the answer would be.
Cover there in the lake" she replied careessly.
81 turned them at first into pigs, perhaps you
have heard, and then, as they grew very annoying
INFO logs"
ooh I wish you would bring at least a few back to
life"
"Anything you wish shall be DONE" she said
smiling; "for you made me laugh and that must be
rewarded. Come with me and sec me do it. It's the
first time it's ever happened
They went to the lake, and standing on the
shore the Siren burned a handful of dry herbs that
smet very bad indeed. In a moment all the gnarled
branches water-soakcd and blackened by age, that
lay in the stagnant water began TO writhe and t7is
and then suddenly turn into men, who with aston
ished looks and cries, Waded TO Shore where seeing
the dreaded Siren, they Tell ON their knees and I'M
plored mercy. Some were clad. IN ancient Greek
armor. others wore skins of WOODEN and cotton
robes that fell in wet. clinging folds about them
and others were tattoocd from head to foot like
Polynesan cannibals- These men from the far, far
distant past all spoke a tongue that Andrew knew
must be the most ancient Greek, Phoenician or
Egyptian, for these were the sailor-men of those
remote times who ventured the unknown seas Of
the past and were caught by the Sirens seductive
song but somehow he understood every word they
said. ! suppose it was the spell of the wOndrous
island of the Siren.