Soon enough we saw him. He returned to the cave herding a flock of fat sheep and rams.
When he had them inside, he picked up a massive stone slab that was lying by the entrance and slid it easily across the opening.
His strength and bulk terrified us, so that we cringed in the shadows as one by one he milked his fat ewes, curdling some of the milk for cheese and leaving two great pails to drink from.
When he had put all the sheep in their pens, each suckling under its dam, he lit a fire and suddenly spied us. Th e O dysse y H o m e r G a r e th Hinds
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