In the beginning (you wouldn’t know it now, because I am very rich) I was very poor. One day, when I had only a handful of flour left in the larder, and no money to buy any more, nor any hope of earning anything, I carried my little brass pot down to the river....
“Here comes the Satin Surgeon! Look at the Satin Surgeon! Long live the Satin Surgeon!” You would think it was Christ coming into town on his mule for all the fuss the people made when he arrived. This “Satin Surgeon” claims to be able to heal...
Taking the chance that I might be able to cure my father’s blindness, I gathered a crew and we set sail. The physician gave us a hundred days to catch the Golden-Headed Fish, and for a hundred days we caught nothing. On the eleventh hour of the hundredth day, I...
I’ve been in service long enough. I’m tired of doing menial work for little men who are trying to kill me. I’ll take my gold and silver back to my father the smith. And then I’ll say farewell to mortal men and return to my mother in the sea....
I have nothing but an axe and a couple of mules. Every day I go out into the forest to chop wood, and at the end of the day, the mules carry it to town. I have done this back-breaking work for twenty years. I’m out of bed by five in the morning, summer and...
