Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources (1882)
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor. prt, Murray, John, Aesop, James, Thomas, 1809-1863, Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 · London : John Murray · leaf 66
mehidden treasure, as soon as the old man was dead, set towork with their spades and ploughs and every implementthat was at hand, and turned up the soil over and over again.They found indeed no treasure ; but the vines, strengthenedand improved by this thorough tillage, yielded a finer vintagethan… … V<^->4^f «<;:£?? ^■-^ilig**^^^ Fable 59.—THE TKEES AND THE AXE. A Woodman came into a forest to ask the Trees to givehim a handle for his Axe. It seemed so modest a requestthat the j)rincij)al Trees at once agreed to it, and it wassettled among them that the plain homely Ash should…
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