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"Cadmus walked down the
furrow, planting the teeth, and scarce had he done so when clods began to move aside and spear-points rise above them. Helmets with nodding plumes came up, next shoulders and breasts and limbs of men with weapons, and in time a whole harvest of armed warriors. And the whole crowd fell to smiting and fighting each other till all fell, slain with mutual wounds, except a few survivors. And one of them said to another, "If you think this is bad, go check out western Nevada." — freely adapted from Bullfinches Mythology |