THE OLYMPIAN ASPECT 



honour of his Celestial Lady, that the whole world 

 should keep a Festival upon the day of his marriage, 

 and so invited all living creatures, Tag-Rag and Bob- 

 Tail, to the solemnity of his wedding. They all came 

 in very good time, saving only the Tortoise. Jupiter 

 told him 'twas ill done to make the Company stay, 

 and asked him, "Why so late?" "Why truly," 

 says the Tortoise, " I was at home, at my own House, 

 my dearly beloved House," and House is Home, let 

 it be never so Homely. Jupiter took it very ill at 

 his hands, that he should think himself better in a Ditch 

 than in a Palace, and so he passed this Judgment upon 

 him : that since he would not be persuaded to come 

 out of his House upon that occasion, he should never 

 stir abroad again from that Day forward without his 

 House upon his head. 



This, as may be seen at once, is the Olympian aspect 

 not only of the house, but of the garden as well. We 

 mortals do carry our Homes with us, breathing a closer, 

 less free air than the air of Olympus, when the reigning 

 monarch has merely to take a toy in the head to enter 

 into a state of matrimony. We, tortoise-like, are bound 

 and tied by a thousand pleasant associations to our 

 plot of earth and our patch of stars. Sooner than 

 attend the ceremonies of the greatest, ' we linger by 

 our house and in our garden, so that though we may not 

 boast with the great world and say that we know 

 " Dear old Jove," or " that charming wife of his, 

 Juno," still we know that we live on the slopes of 

 Olympus, and have a number of charming flowers for 

 society. 



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