earnt the virtues of all herbs, and how to cure all
wounds; and Cheiron called him Jason the healer, and that is his name
until this day.

PART II

_How Jason Lost His Sandal in Anauros_

And ten years came and went, and Jason was grown to be a mighty man.
Some of his fellows were gone, and some were growing up by his side.
Asclepius was gone into Peloponnese, to work his wondrous cures on men;
and some say he used to raise the dead to life. And Heracles was gone to
Thebes, to fulfil those famous labours which have become a proverb among
men. And Peleus had married a sea nymph, and his wedding is famous to
this day. And AEneas was gone home to Troy, and many a noble tale you
will read of him, and of all the other gallant heroes, the scholars of
Cheiron the just. And it happened on a day that Jason stood on the
mountain, and looked north and south and east and west; and Cheiron
stood by him and watched him, for he knew that the time was come.

And Jason looked and saw the plains of Thessaly, where the Lapithai
breed their horses; and the lake of Boibe, and the stream which runs
northward to Peneus and Tempe; and he looked north, and saw the mountain
wall which guards the Magnesian shore; Olympus, the seat of the
Immortals, and Ossa, and Pelion, where he stood. Then he looked east and
saw the bright blue sea, which stretched away forever toward the dawn.
Then he looked south, and saw a pleasant land, with white-walled towns
and farms, nestling along the shore of a land-locked bay, while the
smoke rose blue among the trees; and he knew it for the bay of Pagasai,
and the rich lowlands of Haemonia, and Iolcos by the sea.

Then he sighed, and asked: "Is it true what the heroes tell me, that I
am heir of that fair land?"

"And what good would it be to you, Jason, if you were heir of that fair
land?"

"I would take it and keep it."

"A strong man has taken it and kept it long. Are you stronger than
Pelias the terrible?"

"I can try my strength with his," said Jason. But Cheiron sighed and
said:

"You have many a danger to go through before you rule in Iolcos by the
sea; many a danger, and many a woe; and strange troubles in strange
lands, such as man never saw before."

"The happier I," said Jason, "to see what man never saw before."

And Cheiron sighed again, and said: "The eaglet must leave the nest when
it is fledged. Will you go to Iolcos by the sea? Then promise me two
things before you go."

Jason prom