The Stone Cutters' Bounty

In antiquity, there was a nascent village nestled between a crescent-shaped mountain range and the sea. They worked hard and had plenty of food, so they considered themselves lucky.

Nobody told them how to be a village. It was the sort of thing that was springing up all over the world, at the time. We can scarcely explain, now, why it happened so suddenly, then.

The village started late and evolved slowly. They were amazed when they saw a small, wind-powered vessel approaching the shoreline.

The Woodsman, the Smith, and the Ax

A woodsman walked into a smithy and said, "There's a problem with my ax."

"What's wrong?" asked the blacksmith.

"I think it needs to be sharpened. I can't seem to chop down any trees with it."