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The Story of the Golden Fleece Then the Ram stopped, and suddenly he spoke to Phrixus, and said: “Lay hold of my horn, and get on my back, and let Helle climb up behind you, and I will carry you far away.”

Then Phrixus took hold of the Ram’s horn, and Helle mounted behind him, and grasped its golden fleece, and suddenly the Ram rose in the air, and flew above the people’s heads, far away over the sea.

Far away to the eastward he flew, and deep below them they saw the sea, and the islands, and the white towers and temples, and the fields, and ships. Eastward always he went, toward the sunrising, and Helle grew dizzy and weary. And finally a kind of sleep came over her, and she let go her hold of the Fleece, and fell from the Ram’s back, down and 31