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148 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
mirroring its countless stars. Hiatha said she
thought it looked like a wide-spread net, the
meshes of which were kept together with
innumerable little silver knots, as though spread
to catch a huge scaly monster that meandered
on the surface in the trailing sunbeams. From
the reveries of these idle fancies they were
awakened by the voice of the father calling
out to them to return to their hut, for important
news had just arrived by a fishing-boat
returning from the mainland. The narrator told
them that war had broken out between Rome
and Greece. All their faces looked pale by
the glare of the lamp at hearing this, for they
knew it meant that Zeo would be drafted
into service in this emergency.
" The following day the official call arrived,
and at sunset Zeo departed in company with
other hardy youths of the island for Corinth,
where they were to assemble. The son and
lover had left, and the home appeared desolate
to all; but he had left them with an ardent
enthusiasm for the cause of his oppressed
country, and the little family shared in his
anxiety for the common weal.
" Dreary months passed away, and but spare
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