Why the Sea is Salt (6)

Why the Sea is Salt (6)

" From behind the door, " said the poor brother, for he did not choose to satisfy his brother on that point.

However, later in the evening, when he had taken a drop too much, he could not refrain from telling how he had come by the hand-mill.

" There you see what has brought me all my wealth ! " he said, and brought out the mill, and made it grind first one thing and then another.

When the rich brother saw that he insisted on having the mill, and after a great deal of persuasion he got it; but he had to give three handred dollars for it.

The poor brother was to keep it till haymaking was over, for he thought; " If I keep it as long as that, I can make it grind meat and drink that will last many a long year."

During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, and when harvest time came the rich brother got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it.

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