22 HISTORICAL TALES.

rings of twelve axes set up in line. This done, he
turned the terrible bow upon the suitors, sending its
death-dealing arrows whizzing through their midst.
Telemachus and Eumeus, his swine-keeper, aided
him in this work of death, and a frightful scene of
carnage ensued, from which not one of the suitors
escaped with his life.

In the end the hero, freed from his ragged attire,
made himself known to his faithful wife, defeated
the friends of the suitors, and recovered his kingdom
from his foes. And thus ends the final episode of
the famous tale of Troy.