THE LABYRINTH.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3998, 25 November 1918, Page 4

THE LABYRINTH.

When the world was quite young and a great many very strange thing.l; happened in it, there lived a King of Crete, called Minos, who kept a dreadful monster- as a pet. This beast was called the Minotaur, and it had the body of a man and the Read of a bull. The people of Crete hated it and wanted to kill it, so as to keep it" safe from them King Minos had a wonderful cage built for it—really one oi the most wonderful buildings there ev«r was in the world. In the middle was a great courtyard for the Minotaur to live in, and leading away from this were so many long, complicated passages that no one who did not hold the clue could find his^ way through them, but was sure to be tired out and die on the way. It was called the labyrinth. Great high -walla surrounded it ,and on the tojr was a tower where the Minotaur could climb ana stand looking out to sea, thinking such queer thoughts, half beast thoughts and half man thoughts all mixed together, and the poor creature couldn't make out the meaning of things at all.

One day he was standing there watching a boat with black sails which had just arrived on the sea; shore, and wondering when his keepers would Tsring him his next meal, when he heard a noise behind, him and looking round saw a young m?n holding a sliort, sharp sword. The Minotaur gave a fearful bellow and rushed at him, and then a great fight began. The young man, whose name was Theseus, was horribly gored, but in the end he managed to kill the Minotaur, and made his escape back into his own country. Don't spend half your life in tlw .making of promises unless you wan* to give up the other half to the n»»ki