The Stones He Threw From a Field He No Longer Owned

A man threw stones from his field into the high road and was rebuked by a pious man, who said that he should

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not throw stones from a place which was not his own in to one that was. Later on he was compelled to sell the field which thus became his own no longer; and whilst walking along he stumbled over the very stones lying in the high road which had now become his property as common to all.