Book 3

I Telemakhos, am writing to you again due do my father's failure to return. We are about to begin our voyage when Lord Nestor invited us to bathe and sleep at his house for the night. He claimed that a son of Odysseus would never sleep on the deck of a ship while he was living. The lord held a large feast while my crew and i stayed, it was a sacrifice for the Goddess Athena who has helped us so much with preparing our treck to find Odysseus. For the feast, Lord Nestor sacrificed his heifer. She was un worked, and had never been yoked. Nestor called in a blacksmith who brought his anvil, tongs, and hammer to plate the heifer's horns in gold. Once I bathed and was all settled, the feast commenced and the heifer was sacrificed.