A Houseboat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology 12+

📖 The ferryman of the Styx, Charon, is in a foul temper. All of the sudden he seems to have competition upon the waters coursing between Life and Death -- for here is a beautiful, spacious houseboat on his river! "Ahoy!" calls a shade from the strange boat. "The House Committee wants to see you, Charon!" "And who is this committee?" answers the irritated ferryman. "Why, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cassius, Demosthenes, Blackstone, Doctor Johnson, and Confucius, of course!"