Andromeda
The dragon was never in better health and spirits than on the morning when Perseus came down upon him. It is said that Andromeda told Perseus she had been thinking how remarkably well he was looking. He had got up quite in his usual health—and so on.
When I said this to Ballard Life and Habit, [225] he remarked that he wished it had been so in the poets.
I looked at him. “Ballard,” I said, “I also am ‘the poets.’”