yesterday."

As he said this he poured out half of the soup into a bowl and set it
before the fox.

The cunning old fox felt so ashamed that he has never looked anyone
straight in the face since that day.

PROMETHEUS.

Greece is far away to the east over a great ocean. It is a very small
country with high mountains in every part of it.

The people who lived there long ago could not easily go from one place
to another.

Some of the mountains reached above the clouds and made great walls
around their homes. Men sometimes lived all their lives near the sea and
never saw it.

These people who were shut up in the little valley of Greece did many
wonderful things.

As they could not go far from their homes they had time to see how
beautiful the things around them were.

Perhaps they looked at the sky so much that they wished to have
everything on earth just as beautiful.

They gave their children work to do which made them strong and graceful.

Some of the Greeks carved statues from the marble in the mountains. Some
built great temples of it.

Some painted pictures, while others made gardens more beautiful than
pictures.

Others wrote books. Many of the stories you like were written by the
poets who lived in Greece long ago.

In all these ways the Greeks showed their love for their country and
made it a better place in which to live.

Though they were so wise they had many thoughts which seem strange to
us.

They believed that long before they were born a race of giants had lived
among the mountains.

At one time the giants grew angry with Zeus, their king, and wished to
take his throne away from him.

There was a wise giant, named Prometheus, who begged them not to attempt
to do this.

He tried to show them how foolish they were.

They would not listen to him. Zeus lived upon Mount Olympus, the highest
mountain in Greece.

The giants brought great rocks to this mountain and piled them up,
higher and higher, until they reached the sky.

Zeus waited until the giants had finished their work and were ready for
battle.

Then he put out his hand and touched the great mound. Instantly it fell
over into the sea.

Prometheus and his brother were now the only people on earth.

They were so lonely that Zeus told them to model some people from clay.

Prometheus made animals and men and Epimetheus, his brother, gave them
gifts of courage, swiftness and strength.

To some he gave feathers and