A PRESENT FROM JUNO 201 
any more than with the poor women whose hearts the 
same demon has frozen. We are going to stop it, 
and you know how. The Malay only kills the poor 
Argus Pheasant to sell his feathers. If hey were not 
wanted he would leave him alone, to be happy and 
beautiful, and to dance in a nice tidy drawing-room. 
So just ask your mother to promise never to wear a 
hat—or anything else—that has a feather, or even a 
little piece of a feather, of an Argus Pheasant in it. 
That was going to be the end of the chapter, but 
there is just something which I have forgotten. | 
am sure you will have been wondering why this 
beautiful pheasant is called the Argus Pheasant, and 
what the word Argus means. Well, I will give you 
an explanation. Argus was the name of a wonderful 
being—a kind of monster—who had a hundred eyes, 
and who lived a long time ago. But he offended the 
great god Jupiter, who had him killed, and then 
Jupiter’s wife—the goddess Juno—whose servant he 
was, put all his eyes into the tail of the peacock—for 
the peacock was her favourite bird. That is one 
story ; but another one says that she did ot put them 
all there, but only the bright ones. The soft ones— 
those pretty ones that I have been telling you about— 
she put into the wings of another bird, that she liked 
quite as well, if not better, and that bird became, at 
once, the Argus Pheasant. But now if Argus had 
