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title: The Dragon's Teeth., part 3 — Tanglewood Tales · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: I will not sadden you, my little hearers, with telling how Telephassa died and was buried, but will only say, that her dying smile grew bright
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# The Dragon's Teeth., part 3 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/101/) — When Cadmus and his companions came up with her, there was the brindled cow taking her ease, chewing her cud, and looking them quietly in the face; as if this was just the spot she had been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter of course.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/102/) — "This, then," said Cadmus, gazing around him, "this is to be my home."
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/103/) — It was a fertile and lovely plain, with great trees flinging their sun-speckled shadows over it, and hills fencing it in from the rough weather.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/104/) — At no great distance, they beheld a river gleaming in the sunshine.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/105/) — A home feeling stole into the heart of poor Cadmus.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/106/) — He was very glad to know that here he might awake in the morning without the necessity of putting on his dusty sandals to travel farther and farther.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/107/) — The days and the years would pass over him, and find him still in this pleasant spot.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/108/) — If he could have had his brothers with him, and his friend Thasus, and could have seen his dear mother under a roof of his own, he might here have been happy after all their disappointments.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/109/) — Some day or other, too, his sister Europa might have come quietly to the door of his home, and smiled round upon the familiar faces.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/110/) — But, indeed, since there was no hope of regaining the friends of his boyhood, or ever seeing his dear sister again, Cadmus resolved to make himself happy with these new companions, who had grown so fond of him while following the cow.

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