to show how glad his music made it.

Now, Orpheus had a wife who was called Eurydike, whom he loved very
dearly. All through the winter, when the snow was on the hills, and
all through the summer, when the sunshine made everything beautiful,
Orpheus used to sing to her, and Eurydike sat on the grass by his side
while the beasts came round to listen, and the trees bowed down their
heads to hear him.

But one day when Eurydike was playing with some children on the bank
of the river, she trod upon a snake in the long grass, and the snake
bit her. And by and by she began to be very sick, and Eurydike knew
that she must die. So she told the children to go to Orpheus (for he
was far away) and say how sorry she was to leave him, and that she
loved him always very dearly, and then she put her head down upon the
grass and fell asleep and died. Sad indeed was Orpheus when the
children came to tell him that Eurydike was dead. He felt so wretched
that he never played upon his golden harp, and he never opened his
lips to sing, and the beasts that used to listen to him wondered why
Orpheus sat all alone on the green bank where Eurydike used to sit
with him, and why it was that he never made any more of his beautiful
music. All day long he sat there, and his cheeks were often wet with
tears. At last he said, "I can not stay here any more, I must go and
look for Eurydike. I can not bear to be without her, and perhaps the
king of the land where people go after they are dead will let her come
back and live with me again."

So he took his harp in his hand, and went to look for Eurydike in the
land which is far away, where the sun goes down into his golden cup
before the night comes on. And he went on and on a very long way, till
at last he came to a high and dark gateway. It was barred across with
iron bars, and it was bolted and locked so that nobody could open it.

It was a wretched and gloomy place, because the sunshine never came
there, and it was covered with clouds and mist. In front of this great
gateway there sat a monstrous dog, with three heads, and six eyes, and
three tongues, and everything was dark around, except his eyes, which
shone like fire, and which saw every one that dared to come near. Now,
when Orpheus came looking for Eurydike, the dog raised his three
heads, and opened his three mouths, and gnashed his teeth at him, and
roared terribly, but when Orpheus came nearer, the dog jumped up upon
his feet and got himse