not long after an old chinese woman came back to china from her visit to her daughter in the states, she went to a city bank to deposit the us dollars her daughter gave her. at the bank counter, the clerk checked each note carefully to see if the money was real. it made the old lady out of patience.
at last she could not hold any more, uttering. “trust me, sir, and trust the money. they are real us dollars. they are directly from america.”
The Flood
Towards the end of the Age of Bronze the human world became very cruel.
Men grew hungry,impolite and rightn or law was respected any longer,and the rule of hospitality was sed up in human form,Zeus visited Arcadia andThessaly,and disliked the deadly wrongs of men decidedto clear the earth of them out hesitation he released therainy south wind and called upon the heartless Poseidon to the whole world sank in a vast ocean, and the entire humanrace disappeared in the unheard of flood,all but two poor Thessalians .
These were an old childless couple,kind and faithful and contented with man was called Deucalion and his wife of Prometheus,Deucalion had been warned beforehand by his father of the coming flood and made himself a the roaring flood came the couple hid themselves init and floated for nine days until it touched land again on Mt Parnassus.
The once active world presented a frightening was all death and ing lonely and unsafe,the old coupleprayed to the gods for help.A sage instructed them to cast the bones of their mother about son of the wise Titan, havingguessed the true meaning of the mysterious command, started throwing stones behind him. A miracle occurred. The stonesthat the man cast bec ua ame men;the stones that the woman threwturned into e then,people appeared on the land Heroic Age had begun.
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