File:(USA) 1896 Alcibiades dared the driver to come on (The story of the Greeks p160) 801x499.jpg

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English : Alcibiades dared the driver to come on / unknown artist ; in The story of the Greeks / Hélène Adeline Guerber, p. 160. – 1896. – Engraving.

The text by H. A. Guerber on the following page reads:
Even as a little child he was very headstrong, and, as he had no father and mother to check him, he was often led by his willfulness into great danger. We are told that once, when he saw a wagon coming down the street where he and his playmates were playing, he called to the man to stop. The man, who cared nothing for their game, drove on, and the other children quickly sprang aside so as not to be run over. Alcibiades, however, flung himself down across the road, in front of his playthings, and dared the driver to come on.
This was of course very foolish; and if the driver had given him a few sharp cuts with his whip, it might have done Alcibiades a great deal of good. But the man was so amused by the little fellow’s pluck, that he actually turned around and drove through another street.

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