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.