Identifier: storyofromefrome00macg (find matches)
Title: The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Mary
Subjects: Rome -- History
Publisher: London, Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thechildren sent Faustulus to their aid. Faustulus was one of the herdsmen of King Amulius.He had often seen the wolf going in and out of the cave,and had noticed, too, how the woodpeckers came andwent each day. So when the wolf went off to prowl in thewoods, Faustulus ventured into the cave, where to hisamazement he found two beautiful and well-fed children.He took them in his arms and carried them home to his wife.She gladly welcomed the little strangers, and, naming themRomulus and Remus, brought them up as though theyhad been her own sons. As the years passed the boys grew ever more beautiful.Stronger and braver, too, they became, until the roughherdsmen among whom they dwelt called them princes. The lads soon showed that they were fitted to lead theherdsmen. If wild beasts attacked the flocks, or if robberstried to steal them, Romulus and Remus were ever the firstto attack, and to drive away either the robbers or the wildbeasts. Faustulus lived on Mount Palatine, near to the spot
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A she-wolf, coming to the edge of the river to drinli, heard their cries. THE TWIN BOYS 7 where the boys had been washed ashore when they werebabes. This hill belonged to the cruel king Amulius, and it washis sheep and cattle that the princes, unwitting of the evilthe king had done to them, defended from danger. Not far from Mount Palatine was another hill, namedMount Aventine, and here also were herdsmen guardingflocks, but these herdsmen belonged to the dethroned KingNumitor. Numitor was living quietly in the city of Alba. Now it chanced that the herdsmen of AmuHus began toquarrel with the herdsmen of Numitor. One evening,forgetting all about their enemies, the shepherds on MoimtPalatine were merrymaking at a festival in honour of thegod Pan. Then the herdsmen on Mount Aventine said one to theother, See, here is our chance. We will lay an ambushfor these unwary merrymakers. As the gods willed, they captured none other than Remus,and well pleased with their prize, they carried the pr

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