Name: Something Worth Nothing | Tall Tales from History #4
Uploaded: 2020-11-16T19:35:03.000Z
Duration: 9 min 20 s
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You can tell them the rosary will be ready in a while.

If you have a moment to listen there Waas, an ordinary couple who lived in an ordinary, simple house.

They have enough to live their simple, ordinary life.

No matter how hard they worked, they could never afford to buy any extra things.

But whenever they had enough to buy something, they really wanted something they needed had to be replaced.

It grew very tiresome, and they began to take out their frustrations on each other.

But many an evening with spent with them arguing about what they really wanted on what they really needed on dso it waas.

One day the man was on his way to work, and there sat on the side of the road.

Ah, peddler wrapped up tightly in his cloak, selling his ways.

The man knew they needed one of those on some really nice looking spoons that they were sure to spoons at home.

They needed some of that on some thread buttons, lots of practical things the man could have spent his money on.

Well, surely he wouldn't be able to afford it all.

And then he noticed in the middle of the peddlers trade A beautiful knife.

He'd wanted a new knife for a long time Now the peddler saw how the man was looking at the knife and the joy it brought to his face on.

So he offered it so he'd get a closer look.

A tingle of excitement went up his arm and threw his body.

20 shillings, replied the peddler, the man's side and came to his sentence.

Even if he did have 20 shillings, he couldn't spend it on one knife.

He then looked properly for the first time at the peddler.

He wasn't sure he'd seen anyone so well, awful looking.

He had one those faces that gave the impression that he was thinking nasty, horrible thoughts.

The peddlers expression was ugly, horrible.

He was breathing heavily with his mouth open, his spittle running down his chin.

And there was a horrible smell about him, his hands gray with dirt, his fingernails black but thought, the man, It's his face.

It's the peddler's face that makes him look truly ugly.

You could pay me in a week, said the peddler, shaking the man from his thoughts.

And before he knew it, the knife was back in his hand.

Um, I could pay in a week that suits, said the man turning the knife over in his hand.

Yes, but it wouldn't be 20 shillings I'd require.

You'd have to bring me something worth nothing.

And if you haven't found something worth nothing in a week, then I will take your soul as payment.

But he was distracted and clearly thought the peddler was mad, something worth nothing or my soul.

He turned the knife over once more and then went off to work When he got home that night after work he didn't tell his wife about his new purchase are Wait until I found something worth nothing, he thought.

But that evening he couldn't think of anything worth nothing.

What was it that the peddler had asked for his soul?

And the next morning, when he awoke, he was ill with worry.

He needed to think some Or he could go to work off that night.

He didn't eat, he didn't sleep and he didn't find something worth nothing.

That fateful day came The man knew it was the peddler.

People use fellas for all sorts of things.

Some people, right with Um oh, he scrambled across the floor, and as he did so, he noticed a piece of straw.

His wife must have missed it when she was sweeping straw.

There was even straw in the walls of his house.

He scrambled to the darkness by the open window.

On there, we could smell his animals, the pigs and the chickens.

And then he remembered You use it on crops to make them grow.

And in fact, he could list a few things that pool was used for on his fingers.

What are you doing down there on the floor?

She demanded, and he had to confess it all whispering.

He told her about the knife, the ugly man and something worth nothing.

Or but before you go, can you pass me the jug with a really narrow neck?

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Something Worth Nothing | Tall Tales from History #4

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