Show A fishy story pyeng yang a city in corea was v s founded three thice thousand and J sixteen t e e n yearb year ago it is is known know n as ah the well all less city within its walls is not a single well and all the water of the cit city is is carried up ky by watermen termen wa from the river which washes its southern wall tradition shows that this has always alays leen been so for it is said that when a chinese general besieged it two thousand years ago believing that he could compel its inhabitants to c capitulate by cutting off their w water ater auppl y lie was led to give up the attempt because the soldiers on the walls took fish scales and went through the motions of the baths baalis and the scales glittering in in the sun looked in the eyes e y es of the astonished besiegers ta be drops of water |