THE KNIGHTS. ay)

Sis. “What? my heel?”

Al. “Yes; and that is not all. Get up on this
stall and look at the islands.” P

The sausage-seller climbed on to the stall, which
was supposed to command a view of the islands in
the Aégean Sea, tributary to Athens, as members of
the Delian Confederacy.1 “Yes, I see them,” he said.

fT, “You see their ports and their merchant ves-
sels?”

Sis. “Yes.”

ff. “And are you not a lucky man? Now look
a little further; look at Asia with your right eye,
and Carthage with your left.”

S.-s. “TI don’t see much happiness in aaron

ff, “ All me is yours to buy and sell. So the
prophecy says.” -

S.-s. “What! mine, and I a sausage-seller?”

Hf. “That’s the very thing that makes your title,
because you are a low-bred, vulgar, impudent fellow.”

S.-s. “I don’t see how I am fit for such a big
thing.”

Ff. “Not fit! What do you mean? I am afraid
that you have something good on your conscience.
Are you by any chance a gentleman by birth?”

1The Delian Confederacy was originally a league of Greek states,
especially of the islands in the Augean, formed after the Persian war to
make a combined resistance to any future attack from the Persians.
By degrees it became an Athenian empire. Many of the islands pre-
ferred making a money payment to furnishing ships and crews, They
thus became entirely dependent on Athens.