The Childhood of Rome

The little maiden knit her straight, dark, delicate brows. People who had no village and lived by themselves had never come to her knowledge before. She thought it must be very...

The third company had no time to watch the others, for some wolves had winded their sheep, and the young men had to run to fight them off. Some of them chased the skulking gray...

He suspected that Romulus had some plan for making war against his wicked uncle and winning back the place that he and his brother had been robbed of. He wished to know more of...

There were a few, however, who did not take this view. The first to suggest that some might go away was Marcus Colonus. He spoke of it to a little group of his friends while the...

In the course of their wandering about, before they found a place for their home, the colonists had not only learned the importance of good water but had found out where some of...

Then around the spot where Faustulus had always said he found the children, Romulus dug a small circular trench. The space inside this was called the _mundus_, the home of the s...

In flood time, as Ursula had often heard her father the hunter say, animals are sometimes so frightened that the fierce and the timid take refuge together on some island or rock...

In fact, the worst enemy the colonists had met thus far was water. They were used to mountain slopes with good drainage. They knew how to keep a field from being gutted by mount...

This was the first wedding in the colony, and as the preparations went forward, everybody, old and young, took a great deal of interest in it. Marcia never knew she had so many...

The Cub, as he made his way back to the hut of Faustulus, was doing a great deal of thinking. When he was younger he had sometimes dreamed of being captain of a band of outlaws,...

The Sabines were angry enough to go to war, But they could do nothing that night, for a successful war would need preparations. There was a parley, and Romulus himself informed...

Public opinion in Rome was like a whirlpool. The currents that battled in it circled round and round, but got nowhere. Calvo, the last of the older men who had been fathers of t...

Suddenly there was a crash as if the earth had cracked in two. Everything turned black. The air was filled with smoke and dust and ashes raining down from the sky.