A long time ago when Lord Jesus and the blessed St. Peter walked about together on earth, it happened one evening that they stopped at a blacksmith’s cottage and asked for a night’s lodging. “You are welcome,” the blacksmith said. “I am a poor man but whatever I have I will gladly share with […]
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The Oyster and the Litigants
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Two pilgrims on the sand espied An oyster thrown up by the tide. In hope, both swallow’d ocean’s fruit; But ere the fact there came dispute. While one stoop’d down to take the prey, The other push’d him quite away. Said he, “‘Twere rather meet To settle which shall eat. Why, he who first the […]
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There was once an old man and an old woman. The old woman had a hen and the old man had a rooster; the old woman’s hen laid two eggs a day and she ate a great many, but she would not give the old man a single one. One day the old man lost […]
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