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14 lines
832 B
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The Ungrateful Son
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A man and his wife were once sitting by the door of their house, and
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they had a roasted chicken set before them, and were about to eat it
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together. Then the man saw that his aged father was coming, and hastily
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took the chicken and hid it, for he would not permit him to have any of
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it. The old man came, took a drink, and went away. Now the son wanted
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to put the roasted chicken on the table again, but when he took it up,
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it had become a great toad, which jumped into his face and sat there
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and never went away again, and if any one wanted to take it off, it
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looked venomously at him as if it would jump in his face, so that no
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one would venture to touch it. And the ungrateful son was forced to
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feed the toad every day, or else it fed itself on his face; and thus he
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went about the world without knowing rest.
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