his shoulders he carried the boar to Myceaae and he led the deer by
her golden horns. When Eurystheus bad looked upon them the boar was
slain, but the deer was loosed and she fled back to the Mountain
Artemision.

King Eurystheus sat hidden in the great jar, and he thought of more
terrible labors he would make Heracles engage in. Now he would send him
oversea and make him strive with fierce tribes and more dread monsters.
When he had it all thought out he had Heracles brought before him and
he told him of these other labors.

He was to go to savage Thrace and there destroy the man-eating horses
of King Diomedes; afterward he was to go amongst the dread women, the
Amazons, daughters of Ares, the god of war, and take from their queen,
Hippolyte, the girdle that Ares had given her; then he was to go to
Crete and take from the keeping of King Minos the beautiful bull that
Poseidon had given him; afterward he was to go to the Island of
Erytheia and take away from Geryoneus, the monster that had three
bodies instead of one, the herd of red cattle that the two-headed hound
Orthus kept guard over; then he was to go to the Garden of the
Hesperides, and from that garden he was to take the golden apples that
Zeus had given to Hera for a marriage gift--where the Garden of the
Hesperides was no mortal knew.

So Heracles set out on a long and perilous quest. First he went to
Thrace, that savage land that was ruled over by Diomedes, son of Ares,
the war god. Heracles broke into the stable where the horses were; he
caught three of them by their heads, and although they kicked and bit
and trampled he forced them out of the stable and down to the seashore,
where his companion, Abderus, waited for him. The screams of the fierce
horses were heard by the men of Thrace, and they, with their king, came
after Heracles. He left the horses in charge of Abderus while he fought
the Thracians and their savage king.

Heracles shot his deadly arrows amongst them, and then he fought with
their king. He drove them from the seashore, and then he came back to
where he had left Abderus with the fierce horses.

They had thrown Abderus upon the ground, and they were trampling upon
him. Heracles drew his bow and he shot the horses with the unerring
arrows that were dipped with the gall of the Hydra he had slain.
Screaming, the horses of King Diomedes raced toward the sea, but one
fell and another fell, and then, as it came to the line of the foam,
the