Book VI.
Modern Times. The Affair of the Eighty Thousand Trusses of Hay.
Zeu pater alla su rusai up eeros uias Achaion,
poieson daithren, dos dopthalmoi sin idesthai
en de phaiei olesson epei nu toi euaden outos. 11
(Iliad xvii. 645 et seq.)
11 O Father Zeus, only save thou the sons of the Acheans from the darkness, and make clear sky and vouchsafe sight to our eyes, and then, so it be but light, slay us, since such is thy good pleasure.
I. General Greatauk, Duke of Skull.A SHORT time after the flight of the Emiral, a middle-class Jew called Pyrot, desirous of associating with the aristocracy and wishing to serve his country, entered the Penguin army. The Minister of War, who at the time was Greatauk, Duke of Skull, could not endure him. He blamed him for his zeal, his hooked nose,
