Eumaeus

I love to listen to this strangers story he tells, I am spellbound and feel like I can listen to him speak for my life, its as if he was trained by the gods. It is such a pleasure hosting this old beggar. The most exciting thing happend to me, Telemachus came home! I was so overjoyed, I was hugging and kissing him. I was sobbing out of joy. My prince had returned safely home to his native land once again. He sent me off to the palace to tell his lovely mother, Penelope to tell her that he had returned, but he specifically ordered me not to tell anyone else especially the suitors because they were plotting to kill him! Those suitors are ruining everything here in Ithaca! I hate them! Telemachus went to the palace, and then myself and that old beggar hobbled into town after him. On our way, Melanthius, a goat herder was being so nasty to us, and then the nasty brute ran up behind that poor beggar and kicked his hip! We moved along on our way, and when we got to the palace and the Antinous, the worst suitor, threw a chair at the old beggar. He is such a terrible, terrible man. Penelope was horrified and sent me to go tell the beggar to come to her and she perhaps might give him a cloak and shirt and see if he knows of her beloved husband. She is such a nice lady.

Eumaeus

Yesterday, I had a visiter. He was a poor old man dressed in rags. My four attack dogs were running at him, but surprisingly he knew the trick. He dropped down to the ground, the same trick my beloved master used to do every time he came to my farm. I took the stranger in kindly, for everyone knows that you always treat strangers kindly for they are always from Zeus. He told me his long grieving story and then he told me that he knew Odysseus and he would return in one month! I can't believe that yet another strangers comes to tell me he is coming home, I will not fall for this trick this time. But he goes on how if he is right and he doesn't come in one month I can fling him off a cliff, but I would never do that, think of how badly I would be thought of, welcoming a stranger and then killing him. No that would not sit well with the people and I would be thought of as cruel. I will however, still be kind and welcoming to this stranger, but never will i believe that my great master is coming home, he is lost and gone in the vast sea forever.

Eumaeus

I have remained faithful to Odysseus even after he has been away for so long. I always want to help out his family and Penelope who is grieving so for her lost loved one, Odysseus. I always bring swine to the kingdom to keep feeding Penelope and his family because those terrible suitors are eating all their food and using everything of theirs. I try and do the best I can to help out and always bring swine to eat for them.