did not think to frighten thee senseless little one look up am i angry are are are shall i weep too and of our tears make a great pond and us both and then thy father will never get well lacking thee to pull his beard peace peace and i will tell thee of the thou hast heard many tales very many now this is a new one which thou hast not heard long and long ago when the walked the of the gods with men as they do to day but that we have not faith to see the greatest of gods and his wife were walking in the garden of a temple which temple that in the ward said the child nay very far away maybe at or whither thou must make pilgrimage when thou art a man now there was sitting in the garden under the trees a that had worshipped for forty years and he lived on the of the pious and meditated night and day oh father was it thou said the child looking up with large eyes nay i have said it was long ago and moreover this was married did they put him on a horse with flowers on his head and forbid him to go to sleep all night long thus they did to me when they made my wedding said the child who had been married a few months before and what thou do said i i wept and they called me evil names and then i smote her and we wept together thus did not the said for he was a holy man and very poor perceived him sitting naked by the temple steps where all went up and down and she said to in black and white what shall men think of the gods when the gods thus scorn their for forty years yonder man has prayed to us and yet there be only a few of rice and some broken before him after all men s hearts will be hardened by this thing and said it shall be looked to and so he called to the temple which was the temple of his son of the elephant head saying son there is a without who is very poor what wilt thou do for him then that great elephant headed one awoke in the dark and answered in three days if it be thy will he shall have one of then and went away but there was a money in the garden hidden among the � the child looked at the ball of blossoms in its hands � ay among the yellow and he heard the gods talking he was a man and of a black heart and he desired that of for himself so he went to the and said brother how much do the pious give thee daily the said i cannot tell sometimes a little rice sometimes a little pulse and a few and it has been and dried fish that is good said the child its lips then said the money because i have the of the gods long watched thee and learned to love thee and thy patience i will give thee now five for all thy of the three days to come there is only a bond to sign on the matter but the said thou art mad in two months i do not receive the worth of five and he told the thing to his wife that evening she being a woman said when did ever make a bad bargain the wolf runs through the com for the sake of the fat deer our is in the hands of the gods pledge it not even for three days so the returned to the and would not sell then that wicked man sat all day before him offering more and more for those three days first ten fifty and a hundred and then for he did not know when the would pour down their gifts by the thousand till he had offered half a of upon this sum the s wife shifted her counsel and the signed the bond and the money was paid in silver great white bringing it by the but saving only all that money the received nothing from the at all and the heart of the money was uneasy on account of expectation therefore at noon of the third day the money went into the temple to spy upon the of the gods and to in black and white in what manner that gift might arrive even as he was making his prayers a crack between the stones of the floor and closing caught him by the heel then he heard the gods walking in the temple in the darkness of the columns and called to his son saying son what hast thou done in regard to the of for the and woke for the money heard the dry rustle of his trunk and he answered father one half of the money has been paid and the for the other half i hold here fast by the heel the child with laughter and the money paid the it said surely for he whom the gods hold by the heel must pay to the the money was paid at evening all silver in great carts and thus did his work a woman was calling in the dusk by the door of the the child began to that is my mother it said go then answered but stay a moment he a generous yard from his put it over the child s shoulders and the child ran away at his own shoe his own head � native proverb as a messenger if the heart of the presence be moved to so great favour and on six yes for i have three little little children whose are always empty and com is now but forty pounds to the i will make so 