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Once, in a valley between the Krkonoše mountains, the winter was so harsh that the woodcutter’s cottage was buried up to its eaves. Inside, a group of unlikely travelers were trapped: a with no cloth, a baker with no flour, and a scholar with no books.

He didn't try to lift the log. Instead, he used his thin, sharp bodkin to find the natural hairline fractures in the oak. He spent hours carefully "stitching" small wooden wedges into the cracks with a tiny mallet. He treated the wood like a stubborn piece of heavy leather. KaЕѕdej jak umГ­

"I am a man of letters," the scholar sighed. "I can recite the history of fire, but I cannot lift the wood to feed it." Once, in a valley between the Krkonoše mountains,