Nature Myths and Storves. 23

“You shall be free from all care.

“You shall not be a man, lest you be compelled
to work for your food in your old age.

“You shall be a grasshopper, free to dance in the
meadow grass all the long summer days.

“I have prepared a dress for you, which shall
protect you well.”

Then she gave Tithonus the wonderful grass-
hopper coat of mail which had been unknown on
earth until this time. a

She tinted it a soft green so that he might not be
noticed in the grass.

Tithonus went that day to live in the meadow
and there, any summer day, you may find him and
his family hopping merrily about in the sunshine.