Excerpt from Unmuzzle the Ox: A Sermon A farmer had three sons and a gypsy. Who professed to read fortunes, said to him that one of his sons would be a murderer. Another a thief. And the third a beggar. This greatly distressed the good man, and after payment ofa considerable sum the gypsy agreed to Show him a way out of the difficulty. Make your first son, ' he said. 'a doctor. And he can kill as he likes; make your second a lawyer, and he can take what he likes; make the third a minister, and he must be a beggar all his ...
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Excerpt from Unmuzzle the Ox: A Sermon A farmer had three sons and a gypsy. Who professed to read fortunes, said to him that one of his sons would be a murderer. Another a thief. And the third a beggar. This greatly distressed the good man, and after payment ofa considerable sum the gypsy agreed to Show him a way out of the difficulty. Make your first son, ' he said. 'a doctor. And he can kill as he likes; make your second a lawyer, and he can take what he likes; make the third a minister, and he must be a beggar all his days} I leave the doctors and the lawyers to arrange their part of the story as they please; but only the other day, in going into a bazaar. And asking if I had to pay. I was answered: Oh. Ministers have always to beg their way. So you may go in free. Indeed. Have we not earned. In the prosecution of this very work. The following degree: A sturdy beggar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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