13 Master Jacob

Photo credit: Public Domain Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ LibriVox recording of The Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle. http://librivox.org/ Once upon a time there was a man whose name was just Master Jacob and nothing more. All that Master Jacob had in the world was a good fat pig, two black goats, a wife, and a merry temper—which was more than many a better man than he had, for the matter of that. “See, now,” says Master Jacob, “I will drive the fat pig to the market to-morrow; who knows but that I might strike a bit of a sale.” “Do,” says Master Jacob’s wife, for she was of the good sort, and always nodded when he said “yes,” as the saying goes. Now there were three rogues in the town over the hill, who lived in plenty; one was the priest, one was the provost, and one was the master mayor; and which was the greatest rogue of the three it would be a hard matter to tell, but perhaps it was the priest.... Wonderclock Tales by Howard Pyle