The young panthers were so funny and helpless, I would not kill them, but I did them up in my sheepskin, and brought them to my father.

He laughed at the little beggars, and then a Nabataean took them to be sold at Clysma to a merchant from Rome.

There and at Byzantium, there is a demand for all kinds of living beasts of prey.

I got some money for them, and for the skins of the old ones, and kept it to pay for my journey, when I went with the others to Alexandria to ask the blessing of the new Patriarch." "You went to the metropolis ?" asked Petrus.

"You saw the great structures, that secure the coast from the inroads of the sea, the tall Pharos with the far-shining fire, the strong bridges, the churches, the palaces and temples with their obelisks, pillars, and beautiful paved courts?
Did it never enter your mind to think that it would be a proud thing to construct such buildings ?" Hermas shook his head.