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John lived all alone because his wife had died. He had worked hard as a tailor all his life, but misfortune
had left him penniless. He had
1 sons, but they only had time to
2 and eat dinner with their father
once a week.
3 the old man grew weaker and weaker, and his sons came by to see him less and less. He often
worried
4 would become of him, until at last he thought of a plan.
The next morning he went to see his friend, the carpenter, and asked him to make a large
5 . Then
the locksmith, and asked him for an old
6 . Finally the glassblower for all the broken pieces of glass he
7 . The old man took the chest home, filled it to the
8 with broken glass, locked up tight and put it
beneath his
9 .
"What's in this chest?" his sons asked, looking under the table.
"Oh, nothing," the old man replied,"just some things I've been
10 ." They kicked it and heard a rattling
inside."It must be full of all the gold he's saved over the years," they
11 to one another.
So they talked it over and realized they needed to
12 the treasure. They decided to
13 living with the
old man, and
14 they could look after him, too. So the first week the youngest moved in, the second week
the middle and the third week the eldest. This
15 for some time.
At last the old father died. The sons gave him a very
16 funeral, for they knew there was a
17 sitting
beneath the kitchen table. When the
18 was over, they hunted through the house until they found the key,
and unlocked the chest. To their astonishment, they found nothing but broken glass. But they didn't give up,
and the eldest son turned over the chest to make sure if there was something valuable
19 among the broken
glass. On the bottom he found an inscription
20 : Honor Your Father And Mother.
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