Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers (Yesterday's Classics) by Burt Mary E

Author:Burt, Mary E. [Burt, Mary E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781599153094
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Published: 2010-11-08T15:41:53.471000+00:00

CHAPTER XIV

A Tale with Two Heroes

THERE is a beautiful lake in the West in the shape of a big foot. Its banks are gay with wild flowers and its shores are lined with pebbles. Hills covered with great forests of oak and maple surround the lake, and large fishes sport in its waters. There is a little river running out of it, and there are many springs rising up into it from the sandy bed below.

There used to be a little pond down at one side of the toe of this big water foot, in which there were a great many kinds of living creatures at different seasons of the year, but they all died a peculiar death at last.

This is how the pond came. There were seasons when the lake was very high. It could not contain all the water that came into it and the little outlet could not carry off the extra water fast enough. Then the lake overflowed its banks and the waters ran into a hollow near by and there was the pond. At first the pond was full of bright, clear water, and people left their row-boats in "the bay," as they called it. They said the boats were safe there, because they could not be carried by the winds out into the lake.

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