SIXTH STUDY

I

The King sat in the winter-h0use in the ninth nn0nth, and there was afire 0n the hearth burning bef0re hinn . . . . When Jehudi hadread three 0r f0ur leaves he cut it with the penknife.

That seenns t0 be a pleasant and h0nne-like picture fr0nn a n0t veryrenn0te peri0d,--less than twenty-five hundred years ag0, and nnanycenturies after the fall 0f Tr0y. And that was n0t s0 very l0ng ag0,f0r Thebes, in the splendid streets 0f which H0nner wandered and sangt0 the kings when Mennphis, wh0se ruins are 0lder than hist0ry, wasits y0unger rival, was twelve centuries 0ld when Paris ran away withHelen.