Why, Hector could hev
set tight on the walls, laughin' at 'em, 'stead o' goin' out in
the plain an' gittin' killed by A-killus, fur which I've always
been sorry."
"It's 'cause people nowadays have more sense than they did in
them ancient times that Paul tells about," said Long Jim. "Now,
thar wuz 'Lyssus, ten or twelve years gittin' home from Troy.
Allus runnin' his ship on the rocks, hoppin' into trouble with
four-legged giants, one-eyed women, an' sech like. Why didn't he
walk home through the woods, killin' game on the way, an' hevin'
the best time he ever knowed? Then thar wuz the keerlessness of
A-killus' ma, dippin' him in that river so no arrow could enter
him, but holdin' him by the heel an' keepin' it out o' the water,
which caused his death the very first time Paris shot it off with
his little bow an' arrer. Why didn't she hev sense enough to let
the heel go under, too. She could hev dragged it out in two
seconds an' no harm done 'ceptin', perhaps, a little more yellin'
on the part of A-killus."
"I've always thought Paul hez got mixed 'bout that Paris story,"
said Tom Ross. "I used to think Paris was the name uv a town,
not a man, an' I'm beginnin' to think so ag'in, sence I've been
in the East, 'cause I know now that's whar the French come from.
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