Word Study: Words that sound alike but have different meanings. 1. I hear the voices of men.

2. Abide here, my comrades.

What is the meaning of hear in the first sentence? of here in the second?

Remember to write hear when you are thinking of a sound that comes to the ear, and here when you mean "in this place." Fill in the following blanks properly with hear or here: 1. I the rushing of the blast.

2. Mute did the minstrels stand to

my story.

5. Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst the tread of the travelers.

6. The world will little note nor long remember what we say but it can never forget what they did

Written Exercise.

Write ten, using hear. work.

Write ten sentences, using here properly.

Exchange papers and correct one another's

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ULYSSES AND THE CYCLOPS (Concluded)

"ALL that day I was thinking what I might best do to save myself and my companions, and the end of my thinking was this. There was a mighty pole in the cave, green wood of an olive tree, big as a ship's mast, which 5 Polyphemus purposed to use, when the smoke should have dried it, as a walking staff. Of this I cut off a fathom's length, and my comrades sharpened it and hardened it in the fire, and then hid it away. At evening the giant came

back, and drove his sheep into the cave, nor left the rams outside, as he had been wont to do before, but shut them in. And having duly done his shepherd's work, he took, as before, two of my comrades, and devoured them. And when he had finished his supper, I came forward, holding 5 the wine-skin in my hand, and said:

"Drink, Cyclops, now that thou hast feasted. Drink, and see what precious things we had in our ship. But no one hereafter will come to thee with such like, if thou dealest with strangers as cruelly as thou hast dealt with us.' 10

"Then the Cyclops drank, and was mightily pleased, and said: 'Give me again to drink, and tell me thy name, stranger, and I will give thee a gift such as a host should give. In good truth this is a rare liquor. We, too, have vines, but they bear not wine like this, which, indeed, 15 must be such as the gods drink in heaven.'

“Then I gave him the cup again, and he drank. Thrice I gave it to him, and thrice he drank, not knowing what it was, and how it would work within his brain.

"Then I spake to him: Thou didst ask my name, 20 Cyclops. My name is No Man. And now that thou knowest my name, thou shouldst give me thy gift.'

"And he said, 'My gift shall be that I will eat thee last of all thy company.'

"And as he spake, he fell back in a drunken sleep. 25 Then I bade my comrades be of good courage, for the time was come when they should be delivered. And they

thrust the stake of olive into the fire till it was ready, green as it was, to burst into flame, and they thrust it into the monster's eye; for he had but one eye, and that in the midst of his forehead, with the eyebrow below it. 5 And I, standing above, leaned with all my force upon the stake, and turned it about, as a man bores the timber of a ship with a drill. And the burning wood hissed in the eye, just as the red-hot iron hisses in the water when a man seeks to temper steel for a sword.

10 "Then the giant leapt up, and tore away the stake, and cried aloud, so that all the Cyclopes who dwelt on the mountain side heard him and came about his cave, asking him: What aileth thee, Polyphemus, that thou makest this uproar in the peaceful night, driving away sleep? Is 15 any one robbing thee of thy sheep, or seeking to slay thee by craft or force?'

"And he answered, 'No Man slays me by craft.'

"Nay,' they said, 'if no man does thee wrong, we cannot help thee. The sickness which great Zeus may send, 20 who can avoid? Pray to our father, Poseidon, for help.' "So they spake, and I laughed in my heart when I saw how I had beguiled them by the name that I gave.

"But the Cyclops rolled away the great stone from the door of the cave, and sat in the midst, stretching out 25 his hands, to feel whether perchance the men within the cave would seek to go out among the sheep.

"Long did I think how I and my comrades should best

escape. At last I lighted upon a device that seemed better than all the rest, and much I thanked Zeus that this once the giant had driven the rams with the other sheep into the cave. For, these being great and strong, I fastened my comrades under the bellies of the beasts, tying them 5 with willow twigs, of which the giant made his bed. One ram I took, and fastened a man beneath it, and two others I set, one on either side. So I did with the six, for but six were left out of the twelve who had ventured with me from the ship. And there was one mighty ram, far larger 10 than all the others, and to this I clung, grasping the fleece tight with both my hands. So we all waited for the morning. And when the morning came, the rams rushed forth to the pasture; but the giant sat in the door and felt the back of each as it went by, nor thought to try 15 what might be underneath. Last of all went the great ram. And the Cyclops knew him as he passed, and said : —

"How is this, thou who art leader of the flock? Thou art not wont thus to lag behind. Thou hast always been the first to run to the pastures and streams in the morning, 20 and the first to come back to the fold when evening fell; and now thou art last of all. Perhaps thou art troubled about thy master's eye, which some wretch - No Man they call him-has destroyed, having first mastered me with wine. I would that thou couldest speak, and tell 25 me where he is lurking. Of a truth, 'I would dash out his brains upon the ground.'