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    Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii
    Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii
    Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii
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    Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii

    By Jennie Hall

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Buried Cities, Volume 1 - Jennie Hall

      Buried Cities, Part 1, Pompeii

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Buried Cities, Part 1, Pompeii, by Jennie Hall

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      Title: Buried Cities, Part 1, Pompeii

      Author: Jennie Hall

      Release Date: August 10, 2004 [EBook #9625]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BURIED CITIES, PART 1, POMPEII ***

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      BURIED CITIES

      BY

      JENNIE HALL

      The publishers are grateful to the estate of Miss Jennie Hall and to her many friends for assistance in planning the publication of this book. Especial thanks are due to Miss Nell C. Curtis of the Lincoln School, New York City, for helping to finish Miss Hall's work of choosing the pictures, and to Miss Irene I. Cleaves of the Francis Parker School, Chicago, who wrote the captions. It was Miss Katharine Taylor, now of the Shady Hill School, Cambridge, who brought these stories to our attention.

      FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS

      Do you like to dig for hidden treasure? Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery? I knew a boy who was digging a cave in a sandy place, and he found an Indian grave. With his own hands he uncovered the bones and skull of some brave warrior. That brown skull was more precious to him than a mint of money. Another boy I knew was making a cave of his own. Suddenly he dug into an older one made years before. He crawled into it with a leaping heart and began to explore. He found an old carpet and a bit of burned candle. They proved that some one had lived there. What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived—black or white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer? Some of us were walking in the woods one day when we saw a bone sticking out of the ground. Luckily we had a spade, and we set to work digging. Not one moment was the tool idle. First one bone and then another came to light and among them a perfect horse's skull. We felt as though we had rescued Captain Kidd's treasure, and we went home draped in bones.

      Suppose that instead of finding the bones of a horse we had uncovered a gold-wrapped king. Suppose that instead of a deserted cave that boy had dug into a whole buried city with theaters and mills and shops and beautiful houses. Suppose that instead of picking up an Indian arrowhead you could find old golden vases and crowns and bronze swords lying in the earth. If you could be a digger and a finder and could choose your find, would you choose a marble statue or a buried bakeshop with bread two thousand years old still in the oven or a king's grave filled with golden gifts? It is of such digging and such finding that this book tells.

      CONTENTS

      POMPEII

      Line Art of Bronze Lamp. Caption: Bronze Lamps.

      The bowl held olive oil. A wick came out at the nozzle.

      These lamps gave a dim and smoky light.

      THE GREEK SLAVE AND THE LITTLE ROMAN BOY

      Ariston, the Greek slave, was busily painting. He stood in a little room with three smooth walls. The fourth side was open upon a court. A little fountain splashed there. Above stretched the brilliant sky of Italy. The August sun shone hotly down. It cut sharp shadows of the columns on the cement floor. This was the master's room. The artist was painting the walls. Two were already gay with pictures. They showed the mighty deeds of warlike Herakles. Here was Herakles strangling the lion, Herakles killing the hideous hydra, Herakles carrying the wild boar on his shoulders, Herakles training the mad horses. But now the boy was painting the best deed of all—Herakles saving Alcestis from death. He had made the hero big and beautiful. The strong muscles lay smooth in the great body. One hand trailed the club. On the other arm hung the famous lion skin. With that hand the god led Alcestis. He turned his head toward her and smiled. On the ground lay Death, bruised and bleeding. One batlike black wing hung

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