Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)

land and sea, and his heart was high and joyful, for

winter moon, he found the Three Gray Sisters. There was no li

they passed the one tooth from one to the other, but for all that they could not eat,

nerable Mothers, the path to the

that I may see him," and another, "Give me the tooth that

and to hand. And as they groped about, he held out his own hand gently, till

your eye, and I will throw it into the sea, unless you tell me the path to

he truth, though when they told it, Perseus could hardly make out the way. But he gav

nd he guessed that he was come to the ga

said, "Are you come to rob our gar

lden fruit. Tell me the way which leads to th

ey answered, "come dance with us

s, so tell me the way to the Gorgon,

nd answered, "The Gorgon! Sh

ave lent me weapons, and will

that whoever went near the island must wear the hat of darkness, so that he coul

was only impatient to be gone. So at last they put the ma

tle of the Gorgons' wings and saw the glitter of their brazen claws. Then

Then he rose into the air, and held the shield above his head

hey could not see him, because the hat of darkness hid him, and yet he

ke. But as he looked, from among her tresses the vipers' heads awoke and peeped up, with their bright dry eyes, and showed their fang

ed steadfastly on his mirror, and struck with his swo

ing away his eyes, and sprang into the air

ud and sunshine across the shoreless sea, till

"By what road shall

ome no more, but stay and play

wn the mountain, and went on lik