希腊神话英语作文(2)

one night,a little girl holding a jug out of the house,for her sick mother to look for water.the little girl can't find it anywhere water,collapsed on the grass and fell asleep.when she woke up,picked up a jar at the jar was full,clear and fresh water.the little girl be overjoyed,really want to drink your fill,but another want,these mothers is not enough water to it,quickly ran home to hold water.she hurriedly,did not pay attention to the foot of a dog,suddenly stumble on it,the pitcher also fall in the underground.bi puppy to scream.the little girl hurried to pick up tank.

she thought,the water must be spilled,but no,the jar squarely in lying on the ground,water in the pot is full.the little girl pour water in the palm of your hand a little,little dog lick it all the net,be glad.when the little girl to the pitcher,wood has become a silver pitcher.the little girl brought the tank home,to the mother.mother said:" i'm going to die,or for you to drink." jug and handed the little girl again.at that moment,and from silver jug was changed into gold.at this time,the little girl couldn't help,is to collect the pitcher to drink when,suddenly from the outside into a passerby,to discuss water to drink,the little girl swallowed a spittle,put the jug to passers-by.when suddenly from the pitcher out of seven large diamonds,then from the inside out a huge clear and fresh water.

and the higher the seven diamond more rose,rose to the sky,to become seven star,this is what people say the bear constellation.

midas,son of the great goddess of ida,by a hero whosename is not remembered ,was a pleasureloving king of macedonian bromium,where he ruled over the brigians and planted his famous rose gardens．

one day,the old hero silenus,dionysus'' former teacher,happened to straggle from the main body of the dionysian army as it marched out of thrace into boeotia,and was found sleeping and drunken in the rose gardens．the gardeners tied him and ledhim before midas,to whom he told wonderful tales of a big continent lying beyond the ocean''s stream ——altogether separatefrom the united mass of europe,asia,or africa——where gigantic,happy,and longlived people lived in splendid cities,enjoying a wonderful law system．midas,delighted with silenus'' fictions,entertained him for five days and nights,and then ordered a guide to lead him to dionysus'' headquarters．

dionysus,who had been worrying about silenus,sent toask how midas wished to be rewarded．he replied without hesitation：‘please turn all i touch into gold．'' however,not onlystones,flowers,and the furnishings of his house turned to gold but,when he sat down to table,so did the food he ate and the water he drank ．midas soon begged to be freed from his wish,because he was fast dying of hunger and thirst．highlyamused ,dionysus told him to visit the source of the river pactolus and there wash himself．he obeyed,and was at oncefreed from the golden touch,but the sands of the river pactolusare bright with gold to this day．

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