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MEDEIA AND JASON WITH THE GOLDEN FLEECE
MYTHS THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
A SELECTION OF THE CLASSIC MYTHS OF ALL TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
EDITED BY
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED
BY BLANCHE OSTERTAG
NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company
1906
NOTE
The editor and publishers wish to express their appreciation of thecourtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and theMacmillan Company, by means of which they have been enabled to reprintstories from Hawthorne's "Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales," from "Inthe Days of Giants," from "Norse Stories," from Church's "Stories fromHomer," and from Kingsley's "Greek Heroes."
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION |
| CHAPTER I. THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES - (Hawthorne's "Wonder Book") |
| CHAPTER II. THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS - (Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales") |
| CHAPTER III. THE CHIMÆRA - (Hawthorne's "Wonder Book") |
| CHAPTER IV. THE GOLDEN TOUCH - (Hawthorne's "Wonder Book") |
| CHAPTER V. THE GORGON'S HEAD - (Hawthorne's "Wonder Book") |
| CHAPTER VI. THE DRAGON'S TEETH - (Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales") |
| CHAPTER VII. THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER - (Hawthorne's "Wonder Book") |
| CHAPTER VIII. THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN - (Hawthorne's "Wonder Book") |
| CHAPTER IX. THE CYCLOPS - (Church's "Stories from Homer") |
| CHAPTER X. THE ARGONAUTS - (Kingsley's "Greek Heroes") |
| CHAPTER XI. THE GIANT BUILDER - ("In Days of Giants") |
| CHAPTER XII. HOW ODIN LOST HIS EYE - ("In Days of Giants") |
| CHAPTER XIII. THE QUEST OF THE HAMMER - ("In Days of Giants") |
| CHAPTER XIV. THE APPLES OF IDUN - ("In Days of Giants") |
| CHAPTER XV. THE DEATH OF BALDER - ("Norse Stories") |
| CHAPTER XVI. THE STAR AND THE LILY - (Miss Emerson's "Indian Myths") |
INTRODUCTION
In many parts of the country when the soil is disturbed arrow heads arefound. Now, it is a great many years since arrow heads have been used,and they were never used by the people who own the land in which theyappear or by their ancestors. To explain the presence of these roughlycut pieces of stone we must recall the weapons with which the Indiansfought when Englishmen, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Spaniards first came tothis part of the world. There