New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER AlN-
This Is Jacks night?" said Mr.. Bobbing-
ton.
"Yes. and I'm going to tell how Ulysses
went down into Hades. the place where
the spirits were supposed to be-" said Jack.
"Circe told him just what to do. He was
to sail from her island and come to a place
where three rivers met. These rivers had
tho most terrific rames. One was Pyri-
phlegethon! Another was Cocytus. and the
third was Acheron Cocytus was a tribu-
tary OF another river, Styx, across which
tho souls OF the dead were ferried by the
dumb boatman, Charon. You say all those
chs like k
Ulysses followed the directions thai
Ciroe gave him. Silent he sat In his ship.
with no rowers. for the north wind filed
his sails. and over the ocean he was car
r1ed till he came to the place where the
rivers met and flowed into one.
Ulysses left his boat upon the shore and
landed. He was first to dig pit. and in
It he was to pour an Offering for the dead
to drink. He dug the pit. Into II he
poured the only things the poor dead peo-
pie could drink-the blood OF a black ram,
the blood OF q black eve, and wine and
milk and honey.
"He turned his face away as the dead
came hooking up from an opening in the
earth to taste that strange banquet.
"He was to be sure that Tiresias. who
had been a great prophet, drank first. But
Tresias did not appear at once, and Ulysses
had to drive the other ghosts back-even
she ghost OF his own poor mother. OF whose
death he had not heard till now.
AT last Tiresias came-and drank. Then
he asked Ulysses what he wanted OF him.
"Tell me. prophet said Ulysses.
shall I ever again tread the rocky coast
Of Ithaca? Shall see my fair wife. Pene.-
ope? Or take to my heart my son. Telema-
chusr
He listened for the answer. 1t came In
strange words.
"'Woe. woe and woe again to thee.
| Ulysses cried Tiresias. Neptune, the god
Of the sea, will turn the waves OF the sea
against thy course because of the eye OF
| Polyphemus, his son. But-be brave, and
| you shall win your way home-after you
| have been q beggar. But when you do get
home you Will be killed by your Own
| guests unless you kill those who do moi
! know you
| when no had heard so much. Ulysses
wanted over so badly TO know II Penelope
remembered him after so many years. So
he begged the ghost of his mother to tell
| him. and he was gald TO hear that Penel.
| ope thought of him all the time.
He saw all sorts OF people down In the
| Shades
''Hades Is the right name" put in Jean.
'Hades them said Jack. He saw Tan
talus who had done dreadful things. pun
ished by perpetual hunger and thirst. II,
stood in a lake of water, which ebbeG
| away from him whenever he stopped tC
drink. and the lake was surrounded by
fruit trees all In bloom, which waved away
from him when he tried to reach them.
He saw, too. Sisyphus, who had alse
tried 10 cheat the gods, and who had tC
roll big stone up hill Directly ne got il
there. down 1t came again, and he had L
start inland keep on doing IT.
Besides these, Ulysses saw many of the
great chiefs who had been his companion.
when he was besieging Troy. He had
thought that they, more fortunate thar
himself. had arrived safely at their home:
and so they had. but only to find trouble
when they got there. Agamemnon, choser