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Tonight, I will be reading

from the junior classics,

tales from Greece and Rome.

So lie down, close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

How They Built the Ship, Argo, by Charles Kingsley.

The heralds went out and cried to all the heroes of the Minouai.

Who dare come to the adventure of the golden fleece?

And Juno stirred the hearts of all the princes,

and they came from all their valleys to the yellow sands of Pagasai.

And first came Hercules, the mighty, with his lion's skin and club,

and behind him Hylas, his young squire, who bore his arrows and his bow, and Typhus, the skillful

starrisman, and beauties, the fairest of all men, and Castor and Pollux, the twins, the sons of the magic swan,

and Seneas, the strongest of mortals, and thither came Zetes and Callais, the winged sons of the

North Wind, and Peleus, the father of Achilles, whose bride was silver-footed,

Thetus, the goddess of the sea. And thither came Telemone, and Oelius, the fathers of the two

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