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Jumat, 12 April 2013
The Old Grandfather and His Grandson
Once upon a time, there was a very old grandfather. His eyes were almost
blind. His ears were deaf and his knees shook. When he sat at the table, he
couldn’t hold the spoon strongly. He spilled soup on the tablecloth. Besides,
some of his soup would run back out of his mouth.
His son and his son’s wife were annoyed. Finally, they made the old
grandfather sat in the corner behind the stove. They gave him not enough food
in clay bowl. He sat there and looked at them sadly. He was almost crying.
One day the old grandfather could not hold the bowl because his hands were
too weak. The bowl fell to the ground and broke. The woman scolded him.
However, the old grandfather didn’t say anything. He could not cry. Then, he
bought him a wooden bowl and made him eat from it.
Once the husband and his wife were sitting in the dining room, their
four-year-old son put together some pieces of wood on the floor. His father
asked him what he was doing. The little child said that he was making a bowl
for his father and mother to eat from when he became an adult.
The man and the woman
looked at each other. They began to cry. They bought their old grandfather to
the table immediately. Since then, they always let him there. If he spilled a
little, they did not say anything.
