" Jason's face, red and good-natured always, became a trifle redder.

Jason's just been telling me that the new folks up at Brae Wood have been sending all round the place for eggs and butter and cream and fowls, and Jason says that he can get so much better prices from them than from Bryndermere.

"That's pride on Jason's part; wicked pride, Jessie," she said.

Within the house, however, there was almost a stoical calma sensation of cloistered chastity produced by the restraint of ornament and the subdued light on gloriously painted frescoes representing evening benediction at a temple altar, a gathering of the Muses, sacrifice before a shrine of Aesculapius and Jason's voyage to Colchis for the Golden Fleece.

* Pindar has made this victory of Arkesilas, King of the Hellenic colony of Kyrene in Africa, an occasion for telling the story of Jason's expedition with the Argonauts.

For on this wise spake she to the warrior Jason's god-begotten crew: 'Hearken O sons of high-hearted mortals and of gods.

It has been suggested to me by Professor S.H. Butcher, that [Greek: chamaigenaes] may have been equivalent to [Greek: gaegenaes] and that Pelias may thus mean, half ironically, to imply that Jason's stature, garb and mien, as well as his mysteriously sudden appearance, argue him a son of one of the ancient giants who had been seen of old among men.]

Wherefore I choose to have been born in Colchis, from whence I came on Jason's fist.

4. Jasonis flava coma incendit cor Medeae) will have Jason's golden hair to be the main cause of Medea's dotage on him.

It was Jason's discourse as much as his beauty, or any other of his good parts, which delighted Medea so much.

" Jason's jest the slickest scamp, Full of jokes as he can hold; Says he beats Aladdin's lamp, Givin' out new stuff fer old; "Buy your rags fer more 'n they're worth, Give yer bran'-new, shiny tin, I'm the softest snap on earth," Says old Jason, with a grin.

Argo, escaped the two inrushing rocks, And snow-clad Pontus with his baleful jaws, Came to Bebrycia with her heaven-sprung freight; There by one ladder disembarked a host Of Heroes from the decks of Jason's ship.

Though Jason's fleece was famed of old, The British wool is growing gold; No mines can more of wealth supply; It keeps the peasant from the cold, And takes for kings the Tyrian dye. VI. Fairest isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves.

" Not content with this, Medea cruelly slays Jason's childrenher own flesh and bloodnot in a frenzied impulse, for she has meditated that from the beginning, but to further glut her revengeful spirit.

Lord Jason's handmaid am Iand not thine!

Is he wroth At me, or at my guilt, which all men cry? CREUSA (taking JASON's hand and leading him to her father).

KING (swiftly grasping JASON's hand and leading him forward).

When my heart was filled with joy At thinking how 'twould gladden Jason's heart To hear this song from thee! MEDEA.

Twas Jason's crime, nay, less! GORA.

Naught feel I in my breast to feed such hopes! Lost is my name, my fame; I am no more Than Jason's shadow, not that prince himself.

Shall Jason's stock Be but a withered weed beside the road, By all men spurned and trampled?

They are Jason's babes, Like him in form, in heart, and in My bitter hate!