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 22
ees sons were very quarrelsome, andthe father, when he took counsel with them, could HERCULES AND THE WAGONER. do nothing by his words. Then he thought hewould persuade them by an example. So whilethey were sitting there, he bade them bring himsome fagots, and when these were fetched, he he was… … took them and bound them into one bundle, andordered his sons in turn to take the bundle andbreak it. They tried, but could not. But after-ward, when he had loosed the fagots, be gavethem to be broken singly. This they did veryquickly. Then their father saith to them: Sois it with you, my children;…
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