Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — The Might of Small Things. [ARTICLE]

The Might of Small Things.

A vizier, having offended his royal master, was condemned to lifelong imprisonment in a high tower, and every night his wife used to come and weep at its foot. “Go home,” said the husband, “and find a black beetle, and then bring a bit of butter and three strings—one of fine silk, one of stout twine, another of whipcord—and a strong rope.” When she came provided with everything he’told her to put a touch of butte/ on the beetle's head, tie the silk thread around him, and place him on the wall of the tower. Deceived by the smell of butter, which he supposed was above him, the insect continued to ascend till he reached the top, and thus the vizier secured the silk thread. By it he pdlled up the twine, then the whipcord, and then a strong rope, by which he finally escaped. Great thlags from little ones are born; So little ones treat not with scorn.