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Title: Achilles & Hector : Iliad stories retold for boys and girls
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Gale, Agnes Spofford Cook Homer
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Publisher: Chicago New York : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HAT night while the Greek campslept, Priam, lying in the shadowof Achilles tent, stealthily rose and whis-pered to his charioteer: * Should Agamemnon or the otherGreeks find out that we are here, theywould demand ransom from Troy beforethey let us go. Come, we will go whileit is dark. They 3^oked the horses and warilydrove among the tents of their sleepingfoes, out through the gate, and were soonon the way to Troy with Hectors body. It was dawn when they reached thecity gates. From the hilltop where thewatchers were a voice rang out: OTrojan men and women! ye who loved
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■And last came Hele^i 136 Achilles and Hector Hector, hasten forth to see him cominghome. All through the city the house doorsopened, and the people thronged to meetthe chariot and look upon the face oftheir beloved hero who was dead. When they had brought him and laidhim in his own house, all his friends andcomrades came to bid farewell to him.And last came Helen, the cause of thelong war, the cause of Hectors sacrifice.She stood by his bier weeping, and mur-mured : ** Hector, I have never heard a wordof anger or reproach from thee. Whenothers turned against me, thou didstgentl)^ take m)^ part. My onl)^ friend!Now thou art gone, I have no friend inTro)^ The)^ hate me all. And shepassed on, alone and sad.

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