A LEGEND OF THE EATEN
All legends unite In declaring that the fraven tos originally white, and owes his present dusky plumage to the sin of meddling. The Greek storr runs that Phoebus loved a beautiful maiden known ’’as Ooronis, and was happy in his love, it to he returned. But once, 'when he went on a journey, the raven, fwho was his bird, incensed at the infidelity of his mistress, flew in pnrsult •of his master, and told him the unwelcome truth. Phoebus, with anger and jealousy raging in his heart, came swiftly back, and without pausing to reflect, shot an .arrow straight into the heart of his beloved; but no sooner did ho hear her cry of agony and see the crimson stain dyeing the white of her garments •than he repented of his hasty deed of “vengeance, and seeking for some means 'of expressing it, changed the snow-white .(plumage of tho raven to funereal black.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 11
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158A LEGEND OF THE EATEN New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 11
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