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THE GORGON’S HEAD.

SIE RSEUS was the son of Danaé, who was the

daughter of a king. And when Perseus was a
very little boy, some wicked people put his
mother and himself ito a chest, and set them afloat upon
the sea. The wind blew freshly, and drove the chest
away from the shore, and the uneasy billows tossed it up
and down; while Danaé clasped her child closely to her
bosom, and dreaded that some big wave would dash its
foamy crest over them both. The chest sailed on, how-
ever, and neither sank nor was upset; until, when night
was coming, it floated so near an island that it got en-
tangled in a fisherman’s nets, and was drawn out high
and dry upon the sand. The island was called Seriphus,
and it was reigned over by King Polydectes, who hap-
pened to be the fisherman’s brother.

This fisherman, I am glad to tell you, was an exceed-
ingly humane and upright man. He showed great kind-
ness to Danaé and her little boy; and continued to be-
friend them, until Perseus had grown to be a handsome
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