Heracles and the Augean Stables
Heracles cleaned up the vast cattle-pens of King Augeas, which nobody had mucked out for thirty years, in less than a day by diverting two rivers through them. But Augeas refused to pay the fee they had agreed after learning it should have been done for free, and Eurystheus disqualified the labour after hearing how Heracles had used water power.
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