Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children (Version 2)

<h2><SPAN name="xii">JASON AND THE DRAGON.</SPAN></h2> <table summary="stories" cellpadding="10" border="1" align="center" width="50%"> <tr><td width="33%">yourself</td><td width="33%">fond</td><td width="33%">father</td></tr> </table> <p>The next day Jason went to the king and said, "Now, give me the golden fleece."</p> <p>The king did not give it to him, but said, "Come again."</p> <p>Then Medea said, "If you want the golden fleece, you must help yourself. My father will not give it to you. A dragon is by the tree where the golden fleece is, and he never sleeps. He is always hungry and eats people if they go near him. I can not kill him but I can make him sleep. He is very fond of cake. I will make some cake and put in something to make the dragon sleep."</p> <table summary="stories" cellpadding="10" border="1" align="center" width="50%"> <tr><td width="33%">became</td><td width="33%">climbed</td><td width="33%">angry</td></tr> </table> <p>So Medea made the cakes and Jason took them and threw them to the dragon.</p> <p>The dragon ate them all and went to sleep.</p> <p>Then Jason climbed over the dragon and took the nail out of the tree.</p> <p>He put the golden fleece under his coat and ran to the ship Argo.</p> <p>Medea went with him and became his wife.</p> <p class="ctr"> <SPAN href="images/133.png"><ANTIMG src="images/133th.png" alt="THE DRAGON FINDS THE FLEECE IS GONE"></SPAN></p> <p>Oh, how angry the king was! He had lost the golden fleece and the brass bulls and the dragon's teeth. And now his daughter was gone.</p> <table summary="stories" cellpadding="10" border="1" align="center" width="50%"> <tr><td width="33%">through</td><td width="33%">nine</td><td width="33%">stones</td></tr> </table> <p>He sent his men in ships to take Jason, but they could not get him.</p> <p>At last Medea and Jason and the other Argonauts came to Greece.</p> <p>Jason's father was there. He was a very old man. Jason wanted his father to be king, so he asked Medea to make the old man young.</p> <p>Then Medea took her carriage and flew through the air.</p> <p>She did not come back for nine days. She picked flowers from the hills. She found all kinds of stones, too.</p> <table summary="stories" cellpadding="10" border="1" align="center" width="50%"> <tr><td width="33%">stick</td><td width="33%">died</td><td width="33%">woke</td></tr> </table> <p>When she went home she put all these things into a pot and cooked them.</p> <p class="ctr"> <SPAN href="images/135.png"><ANTIMG src="images/135th.png" alt="MEDEA MAKES THE OLD KING YOUNG"></SPAN></p> <p>Then she put a stick into the pot and leaves grew on it.</p> <p>Some of the juice fell on the ground and grass grew up.</p> <p>So Medea knew the juice would make things grow.</p> <p>Jason's father went to sleep and Medea put some of the juice into his mouth.</p> <p>His white hair turned black and teeth grew in his mouth.</p> <p>When he woke up, he looked and felt like a young man.</p> <p>He lived many years and when he died Jason was king.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />