Thus they essayed to strengthen themselves with divers exercises.

Some again tried to drink themselves into a drowse.

Roller was sent by his father to find out what had passed at home in the meanwhile.

And when he saw smoke coming from his mother's hut he went up outside, and, stealthily applying his eye, saw through the little chink and into the house, where he perceived his mother stirring a cooked mess in an ugly-looking pot.

Also he looked up at three snakes hanging from above by a thin cord, from whose mouths flowed a slaver which dribbled drops of moisture on the meal.