Read both versions of the passage and choose the one you prefer.
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Book 24, Lines 783–787
Preparations for Hector’s Funeral
A
Nine days long did they bring in great heaps of wood, and on the morning of the tenth day with many tears they took brave Hector forth, laid his dead body upon the summit of the pile, and set the fire thereto.
B
Nine days they gathered infinite quantities of wood; when the tenth day dawned, they carried out brave Hector weeping, and laid the body on the pile and set it on fire.