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Boys from both sides of the path surged out, and started quarrelling about their game. Scuffles broke out. Some boys fell in the dust, and there were plenty of scrapes and grazes. When they had their fill of that, and were drawing breath, one of the boys, who were all from the hilly communes around Delphi, said:
‘Whatever happened to the messenger on the path?’ The boys, forgetting that they had been until recently rival Greek and Trojan soldiers in the legendary Trojan War, decided to find out what had happened to the man on the path, whom they had cast in the role of a secret messenger.
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