. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . give you gold ;also make fences and plant fields, and cover in the roofs of your houses, and buyyourselves richer clothing. So the people did so, and as the gold got lower inthe bag, the valley grew fairer and greener, till the prince exclaimed, O gold,I see your value now ! O wonderful, beneficent gold ! But presently the valley melted away like a mist, and the prince saw anarmy besieging a city ; he heard a general haranguing his soldiers to urge them 154 OUR SUNDAY BOOK. on, and the soldiers shouting and battering the walls ; but shortly, when the
. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . give you gold ;also make fences and plant fields, and cover in the roofs of your houses, and buyyourselves richer clothing. So the people did so, and as the gold got lower inthe bag, the valley grew fairer and greener, till the prince exclaimed, O gold,I see your value now ! O wonderful, beneficent gold ! But presently the valley melted away like a mist, and the prince saw anarmy besieging a city ; he heard a general haranguing his soldiers to urge them 154 OUR SUNDAY BOOK. on, and the soldiers shouting and battering the walls ; but shortly, when thecity was well-nigh taken, he saw some men secretly throwing gold among thesoldiers, so much of it that they threw down their arms to pick it up, and saidthat the walls were so strong that they could not throw them down. Opowerful gold ! thought the prince ; thou art stronger than the city walls ! After that it seemed to himself that he was walking about in a desertcountry, and in his dream he thought, Now I know what labour is, for I have. M-s^^^^ The Princes Dream, seen it, and its benefits ; and I know what liberty is, for I have tasted it; I canwander where I will, and no man questions me; but gold is more strange to methan ever, for I have seen it buy both liberty and labour. Shortly after this,he saw a great crowd digging upon a barren hill, and when he drew near heunderstood that he had reached the summit of his wishes, and that he was to seethe place where the gold came from. He came up, and stood a long time watching the people as they toiledready to faint in the sun, so great was the labour of digging up the gold. THE PRINCES DREAM. 155 He saw who had much, and could not trust any one to help them to carryit, binding it in bundles over their shoulders, and bending and groaning underits weight; he saw others hide it in the ground, and watch the place clothed inrags, that none might suspect that they were rich ; but some, on the contrary,who had dug up an unusual quantit
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