The First Fiddle

[excerpt from Dobra Tales and Lore, collected by David Hooper]Long ago when glass was still new, there were two brothers, the older one industrious and the younger a layabout. The layabout would do no work, even as his brother labored every day as a woodsman. Neither could take a wife, the layabout because he was too lazy to earn one, and the woodsman because he was too busy working since his brother would not.But the women of the village desired the woodsman, particularly Mara, who lived in...