A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): when a Farmer’s wagon sinks deep in the mud, he only grumbles and calls on the hero Hercules, until Hercules tells him to put his shoulder to the wheel.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of Hercules and the Wagoner: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
It had rained and rained. Now a Farmer came down a country road in his horse wagon. The road was miry, which means deep and sticky with mud.
His two horses pulled with all their might. The wagon had a heavy load, and the mud was so deep! Squelch, squelch, squelch. The horses could hardly move it.
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