The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 17
t the vineyard, being welldug over and improved, yielded an abundant storeof grapes and made them rich. The story teaches that hard work is manstreasure-pot. THE WOMAN AND HER MAIDS.A Widow, who was a notable housekeeper,was wont to wake her Maids and set them atwork by cock-crow. And they, taking… … house waked them earlier still, in the very middleof the night, for she could not tell when it wascock-crow. So it is that their own devices become the verybreeders of evil to many men. THE TWO PACKS,Every man carries two packs, one in front, the THE WOLF AND THE CRANE. other behind, and each is…
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