The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy

otsteps approaching the hut. The fierce dogs were outside and he expected to hear them yelping against the stranger's approach

and running to him, kissed his head and his eyes and his hands. While

! I thought that never again should we see thee when I heard that thou hadst taken a s

ght look over his cub so he looked over Telemachus. But neit

to the City I would know whether my mother is still in the house of Odysseus,

in the courtyard. Odysseus in the guise of the old beggar rose from his seat, but the y

achus seated himself. Next Eum?us fetched a meal for him-oaten cakes

any countries, and who has come to my house as a su

ill give him a mantle and doublet, with shoes for his feet and a sword to defend himself, and I will send him on whatever way he wants to go. But, Eum

t the people of the City hate thee and will not help thee against thine enemies. Ah, if I had such youth as I have spirit, or if I were the son of Odysseus, I should go amongst them this very

t the wooers of my mother are powerful men-men to make the City folk afraid. And if I should oppo

me do for thee, Telemach

d Eum?us,' Telemachus said, 'and let her

in his hands. He begged Telemachus to rest himself in the hu

e gate of the courtyard. She was fair and tall and splendid, and the dogs shrank away from her presence with a whine. She touched t

oment ago thou didst look aged and a beggar! Now thou do

much wandering I have come to my own country.' He kissed his son with tears flowing down his cheeks, and Telemachus t

n him by the Ph?acians, and how he had brought with him gifts of bronze and raiment that were hidden i

he wooers who waste the substance of our house-tell me how many they num

with them. They have come, not from Ithaka alone, but from all the islands arou

d I shall go into the house in the likeness of an old beggar. And if thou shouldst see any of the wooers ill-treat me, harden thine heart to endure it-even if they

u shalt learn soon what spirit i

d debated whether they should kill Telemachus, for now there was danger that he would draw the people to his side, and so make up a force

He came back to the hut in the afternoon. Pallas Athene had again given Odysseus t