Name: The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool
Author: Parker Hoysted Fillmore

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ But even as he spoke the little severed heads returned to their bodies, the heads and bodies grew together as if nothing had happened, and cooing happily the two pigeons flew away.
Then at last the truth flashed upon the blacksmith’s mind. So long as he kept Death fastened to that stool, nothing could die! Of course not! So no more spicy sausages, no more smoked hams, no more roast goose—not even a broiled pigeon! The prospect was not a pleasing one, for the blacksmith loved good things to eat. But what could he do? Release Death? Never that! He would be her first victim! ”

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ He smiled a little to himself. “Won’t you sit down on this stool, dear lady, and rest you for a moment? You must be weary going to and fro over the earth.”
Death, suspecting nothing, seated herself on the stool. ”

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ Men and women walked about looking like tormented ghosts. They had no desire to live on but they had to live on for they could not die.
The blacksmith came at last to a realization of all the misery which his foolish wish was bringing upon the world.
“I see now,” he said, “that God Almighty did well when He sent Death to the world. She has her work to do and I am wrong to hold her prisoner.”
So he released Death from the stool and made no outcry when she put her bony fingers to his throat. ”

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ His friends grew old and one by one died. His children grew up, married, and had children of their own. These in turn grew up. The years brought youth and maturity and old age to them all. The blacksmith alone remained unchanged.
A hundred years is a long time but at last even it runs out. ”

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ And the eggs they had laid all hatched out until the earth and the air and the water swarmed with living creatures. Birds and rats and grasshoppers, insects and bugs and vermin of every kind, covered the fields and ate up every green thing. ”

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ At last he said:
“Grant that whoever sits on the stool where you sat last night at supper may be unable to get up until I release him.”
St. Peter laughed at this, but Lord Jesus nodded and said:
“This wish, too, will be fulfilled.”
So they parted, Lord Jesus and blessed St. Peter going on their way, and the blacksmith returning home to his forge.
Things came to pass as Lord Jesus had promised they should. Work in plenty flowed into the blacksmith’s shop. The years went by but they made no impression on the blacksmith. He was as young as ever and as vigorous. ”

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Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Shoemaker's Apron — The Blacksmith's Stool (1920)

“ In his surprise he loosened his hold and the goose slipped from his hands and went cackling off after the hog.
“What’s come over things today?” the blacksmith asked himself. “It seems I’m not to have sausage or roast goose. I suppose I’ll have to be satisfied with a pair of pigeons.” ”

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