The fables of Æsop, selected, told anew and their history traced (1894)
Kely and Sons, binders, Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916, ed, Heighway, Richard, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan & Company · leaf 129
TThE=lTmn~HlooDen-GOD i N the old days men used to worship stocksand stones and idols, and prayed to … ^ESOPS FABLES 99 them to give them luck. It happened thata Man had often prayed to a wooden idolhe had received from his father, but his lucknever seemed to change. He prayed and heprayed, but still he remained as unlucky asever. One day in the greatest rage he wentto the Wooden God, and with one…
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