A BOWL FOR YOU

 

A BOWL FOR YOU - A TRUE STORY

ΟNCE upon a time, an old man lived with his son. His son became weary of him, and made him eat his meals on a bench at the other end of the room. The old man let a plate fall, and broke it; his son then said, that he should eat out of a wooden bowl. One day this unkind son saw his own little boy cutting a piece of wood. He asked him, what he was making. "I am making a bowl for you to eat out of, when you are old,"- answered the child. This pricked his father's heart so much, that he brought the old man back to the table, and treated him more kindly. 

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Chatterbox 1903