theseus and the minotaur , perseus and the gorgon , king midas and his golden touch , the pied piper of hamelin , the labors of hercules , bellerophon and the chimaera , alice through the looking-glass , jack and the beanstalk , aladdin and the magic lamp , the fisherman and the genie , gulliver among the lilliputians and the houyhnhnms , the adventures of odin and thor , the battle between osiris and set , the wanderings of odysseus , the voyage of captain nemo-there was no end of it , and timmie devoured it all .