H. Labour four

Hercules had to go back to Arcadia. This time, the king of Arcadia was reported that on Mount Erymanthos a giant boar was destroying the corps and the woods.And the crafty minister talked.
- Great King, shouldn’t we inform his nobility Eurystheus, that here in Arcadia was showed up a boar of unprecedented proportions and that the animal may be well -used as a manufacturer to produce new breeds of pigs.
The King revived.
  - You, Sarpedon, a guy who doesn’t miss anything. At the end of the month you will receive bonuses. And now prepare a letter.
Eurystheus liked the idea.
  - In fact, think about it. - The king said to his wife – I will grow a new breed of pigs called eurystheusian and there I will go down in history.
  - You’ll go down in history as a pathetic and a pipsqueak - thought the princess, and then said aloud the following.
- Honey, what a clever king you are! And, by the way, why don’t you grow a new breed of Ceryneian deer?
  - Oh, these women - said the king – don’t you know that this matters to Artemis?
  - And pigs? Won’t she mind?
  - I don’t think so. She doesn’tlike pigs. That is to say, she loves only eating them. Hey, call here Hercules.
When the giant appeared in front of the king, the latter said.
- Go back to Arcadia Hercules and bring me the Erymanthian boar. Unharmed and alive. And do not try to shoot him. Do you think that I do not know that you shot that Hind? So, you have two weeks’ deadline. Go! With shield or on it, ha-ha-ha.
Hercules went to gather what he needed on the way wondering how Eurystheus knew that he, Hercules, shot the deer. And then he realized.
 - Huh, Artemis! Oh, these chatty women - thought the hero.
Hercules sat on the front seat and drove his horses, when suddenly saw a centaur. As, for example, all the Chinese are the same person for Europeans the centaurs are so for the Greeks. Nevertheless, he centaur itself immediately recognized him.
Hello, great hero, the winner of the Nemean lion and the Hydra .
Hercules immediately recognized wise Pholus, at the time he taught him to play checkers. Pholus himself was delighted.
 - I live not far from here. Come to me.
Long table in the cave was normal, but the location of benches- no. On the one hand the bench was, as usual, parallel to the table, and on the other - perpendicular. Why that was so Hercules realized only when Pholus sat with his body on the long bench and opened a canister of wine.
 - For you, Hercules. Let your wishes come true without going against the will of gods.
Wise Pholus was very careful in life.
 - For you, Pholus. For your wife and your centaurs.
Pholus was touched.
- You have no idea of how funny they are, Hercules. The day before yesterday one of them asked me:
- Daddy, Daddy, are horses and people our relatives?
- Well, yeah - I answered.
- Why do people talk, and horses don’t? Are they stupid?
- They aren’t stupid, but are people smarter.
- So, Dad, we're smarter than horses, but more stupid than people?
So, the friends had a very friendly chat, they had already drunk a half-canister of wine when twenty centaurs burst into the cave.
- You, wicked traitor Pholus! What right do you have to treat someone without our permission?
  - My friends, but it's Hercules, the son of Zeus.
  - We don’t care who he is. You broke the forty-second article of our statute and you will die with a painful death. Attack them, guys!
Fortunately, the cave was a bit crowded, and centaurs - awkward. Hercules drew his bow and shot most of them. The other ones escaped. It would seem that he reached a victory. But no. In the rush of the hero was shooting all the centaurs and didn’t notice how fell down his friend Pholus (from here we have the expression - to be worth Pholus). After drinking the remaining wine and burying his friend, Hercules went to Erimanthus.
The boar noticed the giant, frightened and confused the direction, rushed up to the hill, instead of running down. Naturally, the wild boar stuck in deep snow and only squealed softly when the hunter tied it, slung around his neck and whistling "Olle, Olle, Olle" and ran home.
Seeing the powerful fangs of the boar, Eurystheus shuddered.
  - Yes, yes, the feat is for you. Take the wild boar to the pig farm.


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