Excerpt from A Handful of Silver: Six Stories of Silversmiths Eteocles, ' said the old man, in deep, sonorous tones, 'surely that bird was frightened by some man, for savage animals haunt not these lower slopes of the mountain. Your young eyes should see if we approach the homes of men, and yet you warn me not.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.