Short Stories

Good Stories for Great Holidays

Frances Jenkins Olcott

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LABOR DAY

(FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER)


THE SMITHY

A HINDU FABLE

BY P. V. RAMASWAMI RAJU (ADAPTED)

Once words ran high in a smithy.

The furnace said:  ``If I cease to burn, the
smithy must close.''

The bellows said:  ``If I cease to blow, no fire,
no smithy.''

The hammer and anvil, also, each claimed the
sole credit for keeping up the smithy.

The ploughshare that had been shaped by the
furnace, the bellows, the hammer and the anvil,
cried:  ``It is not each of you alone, that keeps up
the smithy, but ALL TOGETHER.''
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