“Man?” said the listener. “A man is he who pierced the steel shield with the steel spear.”
“It was I,” said the lad.
“Then I am your brother,” said the listener, and followed the lad. After another long journey they met a man who was standing with one of his feet upon Mount Ararat and the other upon Mount Taurus.
“Aha! what a man!” exclaimed the lad. “He strides over the world.”
“Man?” exclaimed the colossal strider. “A man is he who pierced the steel shield with the steel spear.”
“It was I,” said the lad.
“Then I am your brother,” said the colossus, and followed the lad.
After a long journey they met a man who was eating all the loaves baked in seven ovens, and still crying, “I am hungry! I am famishing! For heaven’s sake, give me something to eat!”
“Aha!” said the lad. “What a man! whom seven ovens continually baking cannot satisfy.”
“Man?” exclaimed the glutton. “A man is he who pierced the steel shield with the steel spear.”