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but the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep.

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Tonight, I will be reading more Greek stories

from the book, Old Greek Stories, by James Baldwin.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Cadmus and Europa

1 The Bull In Asia, there lived a king who had two children, a boy and a girl.

A boy's name was Cadmus, and the girl's name was Europa. The king's country was a very

small one. He could stand on his house top and see the whole of it.

On one side of it there were mountains, and on the other side was the sea. The king thought it was

the centre of the world, and he did not know much about other lands and people. Yet he was very

happy in his own little kingdom and very fun of his children,

and he had good reason to be proud of them, for Cadmus grew up to be the bravest young man in the

land, and Europa to be the fairest maiden that had ever been seen. But sad days came to them all at last. One morning, Europa went out into a field

near the seashore to pick flowers. Her father's cattle were in the field, grazing among the

sweet clover. They were all very tame, and Europa knew every one of them by name. The herdsman was

lying in the shade under a tree trying to make music on a little flute of straw. Europa had

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