THE WILD BOY OF PINDUS 



WHEN a Greek newspaper condescends to drop the 

 eternal discussion of the Eastern Question and chronicle 

 the gossip of the market-place, it is apt to become 

 intensely interesting to perverse occidental readers. 

 Now and then in the country news there appears a 

 reprint, in the rough rustic dialect of a local news- 

 sheet of some tale which gives a faint echo of the 

 old, old Hellas, and may carry the reader back in 

 a moment to the days of Hesiod or Herodotus. 

 Let us give, as we find it recently quoted in an Athenian 

 paper, a tale which comes from Thessaly, of the wild 

 boy on Mount Pindus : ' Demetriades worthy-of- 

 honour, the warden of the king's forest on Mount 

 Pindus, was out shooting on the mountain. Being 

 tired, he left the chase of the deer, and turned up 

 a path which led through a steep glen to some 

 shepherds' huts, where he hoped to drink a cup of 

 the milk of Pindus, milk which is famed to be the 



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