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.
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