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and that there was nothing else but a gold ring
on its hand, which he took off and went forth. And when the shepherds held
their customary assembly to make their monthly report to the king about the
flocks, he also attended wearing the ring. So as he sat there it chanced
that he turned the collet of the ring towards himself, towards the inner
part of his hand, and when this took place they say that he became
invisible1
1 Mr. H.G. Wells'The Invisible Man rests on a similar fancy. Cf. also the lawless fancies of Aristophanes Birds 785 ff.
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