James Baldwin

Old Greek Stories James Baldwin

A long time ago, when the world was much younger than it is now, people told and believed a great many wonderful stories aboutwonderful things which neither you nor I have ever seen. They oftentalked about a certain Mighty Being called Jupiter, or Zeus, who wasking of the sky and the earth; and they said that he sat most of thetime amid the clouds on the top of a very high mountain where hecould look down and see everything that was going on in the earthbeneath. He liked to ride on the storm-clouds and hurl burningthunderbolts right and left among the trees and rocks; and he was sovery, very mighty that when he nodded, the earth quaked, themountains trembled and smoked, the sky grew black, and the sun hidhis face..