THE STORY OF
THE GOLDEN FLEECE
CHAPTER I
the children of the cloud
ONCE upon a time there was a king called Athamas, who reigned in a country beside the Grecian sea. Now, Athamas was a young man, and unmarried, because none of the princesses who then lived seemed to him beautiful enough to be his wife. One day he left his palace and climbed high up into a mountain, following the course of a little river. Now, a great black rock stood on one side of the river, and made
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