PART II.--HIS FIRST LABOR: THE LION 217 PART III.--HIS SECOND LABOR: THE HYDRA 220 PART IV.--HIS THIRD LABOR: THE STAG 224 PART V.--HIS FOURTH LABOR: THE BOAR 227 PART VI.--HIS FIFTH LABOR: THE AUGEAN STABLE 233 PART VII.--MORE LABORS: AND THE CATTLE OF GERYON 237 PART VIII.--HIS ELEVENTH LABOR: THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES 245 PART IX.--HIS TWELFTH LABOR: THE DESCENT INTO HADES 253 PART X.--THE CHOICE OF HERCULES 260 PART XI.--THE TUNIC OF NESSUS 266 THE APPLE OF DISCORD 276 PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES 287 SATURN. Once upon a time, the Sky married the Earth. The Sky's name was Cœlus, and the Earth's was Terra. They had a great many children: one of these, the eldest, was called Titan, and another was called Saturn. Terra, their mother Earth, was very good and kind; but their father, Cœlus, was very unkind and cruel. He hated his own children, and shut them all up under ground, so that he might get rid of them--all of them, that is to say, except Saturn, whom he allowed to have his freedom. Saturn grew up; and he thought of nothing but how to set his brothers free. At last one day he went to his mother, and asked her what he could do. Terra had come to hate her husband for his cruelty: so she gave Saturn all the iron she had in her veins--(you know that iron comes from what are called the Veins of the Earth)--and he made a great scythe with it. With this scythe he wounded and punished his father so terribly that old Cœlus was never good for anything again--in fact, we never hear of him any more, except when we turn his name into Cœlum, which is the Latin for "the sky," as you know. Saturn instantly let all his brothers out from their underground prison. They were very grateful to him: and Titan, the eldest, said, "You shall be king of us all, and of all the world, if you will only promise me one thing." Saturn promised. "It is this," said Titan. "You know how our father treated us; and how you treated him. Children are plagues, and I don't want you to have anything to do with them. Therefore promise me to eat up all your children, if you ever have any, as soon as they are born. They'll be too young to mind and you'll be safe from them. I think so much of this, that if you don't eat them up, every one, I'll take the kingdom away from you. For I'm the eldest, and I might keep it if I pleased instead of giving it up to you."