【正文】 play still other tunes.Hermes did as he wished, and played such strains of sweet music as no one in all the world has heard from that day to this.And as he played, queer old Argus lay down upon the grass and listened, and thought that he had not had so great a treat in all his life. But by and by those sweet sounds wrapped him in so strange a spell that all his eyes closed at once, and he fell into a deep sleep.This was just what Hermes wished. It was not a brave thing to do, and yet he drew a long, sharp knife from his belt and cut off the head of poor Argus while he slept. Then he ran down the hill to loose the cow and lead her to the town.But Hera had seen him kill her watchman, and she met him on the road. She cried out to him and told him to let the cow go。 for none but Zeus and Hera knew that the white cow who stood in the grove was Io, whom all the world loved.Day in and day out, Argus, who was all eyes, sat on a hill close by and kept watch。 but she coaxed so hard that at last he gave up, and let her have the cow for her own. He thought that it would not be long till he could get her away from the queen, and change her to a girl once more.But Hera was too wise to trust him. She took the cow by her horns, and led her out of the town.“Now, my sweet maid,” she said, “I will see that you stay in this shape as long as you live.”Then she gave the cow in charge of a strange watchman named Argus, who had, not two eyes only, as you and I have, but ten times ten. And Argus led the cow to a grove, and tied her by a long rope to tree, where she had to stand and eat grass, and cry, “Moo! Moo!” from morn till night。 for he came in the guise of a young man, and did not look like the great king of earth and sky that he was.But Hera (Juno), the queen who lived with Zeus and shared his throne in the midst of the clouds, did not love Io at all.When she heard why Zeus stayed from home so long, she made up her mind to do the fair girl all the harm that she could。 and with a mighty blow, he broke the fetters of Prometheus and set the grand old hero free.“I knew that you would e.” said Prometheus. “Ten generations ago I spoke of you to Io, who was afterwards the queen of the land of the Nile.”“And Io,” said Hercules, “was the mother of the race from which I am sprung.”II. The Story of Io1. Changing Io into a White CowIn the town of Argos there lived a maiden named Io. She was so fair and good that all who knew her loved her, and said that there was no one like her in the whole world. When Zeus, in his home in the clouds, heard of her, he came down to Argos to see her.She pleased him so much, and was so kind and wise, that he came back the next day and the next and the next。 and after many days you shall e to the great river Nile. There you shall again bee a maiden, but fairer and more beautiful than before。 and oftentimes men looked up to him with pitying eyes, and cried out against the tyrant who had placed him there.5. How Prometheus Was RescuedThen, once upon a time, a white cow passed that way,——a strangely beautiful cow, with large sad eyes and a face that seemed almost human. She stopped and looked up at the cold gray peak and the giant body which was chained there. Prometheus saw her and spoke to her kindly:“I know who you are.” he said. “You are Io who was once a fair and happy maiden in distant Argos。 now and then flocks of birds would bring him messages from faroff lands。 and every day she took it down from its shelf and felt of the lid, and tried to peer inside of it without opening it.“Why should I care for what Athena told me?” she said at last. “She is not beautiful, and jewels would be of no use to her. I think that I will look at them, at any rate. Athena will never know. Nobody else will ever know.”She opened the lid a very little, just to peep inside. All at once there was a whirring, rustling sound, and before she could shut it down again, out flew ten thousand strange creatures with deathlike faces and gaunt and dreadful forms, such as nobody in all the world had ever seen.They fluttered for a little while about the room, and then flew away to find dwellingplaces wherever there were homes of men. They were diseases and cares。 but wise Athena, the queen of the air, had warned her never, never to open it, nor look at the things inside.“They must be jewels.” she said to herself。 but when Epimetheus saw Pandora, how lovely and wise she was, he forgot all warnings, and took her home to live with him and be his wife.3. Pandora’s BoxPandora was very happy in her new home。 and, lastly, someone gave her curiosity.Then they called her Pandora, which means the allgifted, because she had received gifts from them all.Pandora was so beautiful and so wondrously gifted that no one could help loving her. When the Mighty Folk had admired her for a time, they gave her to Hermes, the lightfooted。 and another a kind heart。 and when he had finished the image, he carried it up to Zeus, who was sitting among the clouds with all the Mighty Folk around him. It was nothing but a mere lifeless body, but the great blacksmith had given it a form more perfect than that of any statue that has ever been made.“Come now!” said Zeus, “Let us all give some goodly gift to this woman.” And he began by giving her life.Then the others came in their turn, each with a gift for the marvelous creature. One gave her beauty。 and when he saw how happy the world was being he cried out: “A new Golden Age shall e, brighter and better by far than the old!”2. The First Woman: PandoraThings might have gone on very happily indeed, and the Golden Age might really have e again, had it not been for Zeus. But one day, when he chanced to look down upon the earth, he saw the fires burning, and the people living in houses, and the flocks feeding on the hills, and the grain ripening in the fields, and this made him very angry.“Who has done all this?” he asked.