You shall still have the last word, but never again
shall you speak first.'
"Just then Iris, Juno's maid of honor, came with a shining car drawn by
two peacocks, and away they both went over the rainbow bridge back to
Juno's throne.
"Echo in her sorrow ran and hid herself in a cavern.
[Illustration: From the cover of a drinking cup. Echo is seen in the
branches. Pan is sitting on the rock.]
"She wandered from cave to cave and rock to rock, always answering back
when those who tried to find her called, but never able to tell where
she was. She grew thinner and thinner, till at last nothing was left of
her but her voice.
"That she will always keep, and try as hard as you may, you can never
have the last word with Echo."
IRIS, THE RAINBOW PRINCESS
_Greek_
Queen Juno was the wife of Jupiter, the great king. She lived with her
husband in one of the cloud palaces of the sky, lighted by the moon and
stars at night and the sun by day.
Juno had many followers who were ready to do her bidding, but she loved
best of all her beautiful maid of honor, the princess Iris. No one dared
to use the rainbow but Iris, to whom it had been given by Jupiter.
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