1 The knight agreed to try, and got on slowly but surely, for the colt was a gallant fellow, and soon learned to love his new master, though he was freakish and wild.
2 Baron Rothschild's private secretary, a large-nosed Jew in tight boots, affably beamed upon the world, as if his master's name crowned him with a golden halo.
3 Everybody's health was proposed, from Mr. Laurence, who was considered their special patron, to the astonished guinea pig, who had strayed from its proper sphere in search of its young master.
4 Every one in that country, whether master or man, has plenty of cheese, meat, and good milk, for the ewes yield all the year round.
5 They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbours.
6 My friend," replied Ulysses, "you are very positive, and very hard of belief about your master's coming home again, nevertheless I will not merely say, but will swear, that he is coming.
7 Do not keep on reminding me of all this; it always pains me when any one speaks about my honoured master.
8 But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs, so he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was glad to see that he looked after his property during his master's absence.
9 Eumaeus sprang to his feet, and the bowls in which he was mixing wine fell from his hands, as he made towards his master.
10 I am too old to care about remaining here at the beck and call of a master.
11 With this he left them to come on at their leisure, while he went quickly forward and soon reached the house of his master.
12 As soon as he saw Ulysses standing there, he dropped his ears and wagged his tail, but he could not get close up to his master.
13 But now he has fallen on evil times, for his master is dead and gone, and the women take no care of him.
14 As he spoke he went inside the buildings to the cloister where the suitors were, but Argos died as soon as he had recognised his master.
15 And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mt.