THE ACHARNIANS, 23

Beot, “ Everything is for sale.”
_ fon. “Well, what do you say for the lot? | I sup-
pose you won’t mind taking a return cargo ?”

Beot. “Certainly not; but what is there that you
have in Athens and we haven’t: got in Boeotia?” |

fZou. “ Anchovies? » Crockery?”
_ Beot. “Anchovies and crockery wi we have i in plenty.
But surely there is something that you have, and we
have not!”

ffon. “Ah! T have it. Ho there! oBrae out the
informer ; pack him as so much crockery.”

Beot. “Excellent! excellent! Ishould make ever so
much money by exhibiting him as a mischievous ape.”

fTon. pee there; there is another of the same
kind coming.” pre
- Beot. “He is very small.”

fon. “Yes, but very bad.”

Informer the second came in. “What goods are
these,” he said. cor

“Mine,” replied the Boeotian. ‘We be come from
Thebes.” :

Informer. “Then I denounce them. They come
from the enemy’s country.”

Beot, “What! denounce the birds and beasts?
What harm have they done?”

Inf. “Yes, and I denounce you, too.”

Baot. “Me! What have you to say against me?”

‘nf. “Just to satisfy the bystanders I will explain.
You have brought in lamp-wicks. That means a
plot to burn the arsenal,”