“Woman!” said the wayfarer now with astonishment, “thou hast many sons, but thou sendest gifts to only one of them. Dost thou love him more than the others? Is he the dearest one?”
She raised her great sad eyes, filled with tears, and answered:
“My blessing is for them all, but my gifts are to Yasko, for I am a mother, and he is my poorest son.”
A LEGEND OF THE SEA
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