This volume brings together the stories and poems from When the Bough Breaks, published in 1924, and Black Sparta, published in 1928. They are: A Sophist in love; 'A wood near Athens'; Arrow-struck; Babes in the wood; Black Sparta; Charilas, in exile, remembers Sparta; Coming into the bay; Cottia went to Bibracte; Got to put up with it now; Krypteia; O Lucky Thessaly!; Peace; Philist?'s weaving song; Plutarch, in a letter to his brother Lamprias;...