THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD
FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN,

NCE upon a time there was an old
man, He lived to a great age,
and God gave him children whom
he brought up to man’s estate,
and he divided all his goods

 

amongst them. “I will pass my
remaining days among my children,” thought he.

So the old man went to live with his eldest son,
and at first the eldest son treated him properly, and
did reverence to his old father. “’Tis but meet and
right that we should give our father to eat and drink,
and see that he has wherewithal to clothe him, and
take care to patch up his things from time to time,
and let him have clean new shirts on festivals,”
said the eldest son. So they did so, and at fes-
tivals also the old father had his own glass beside
him. Thus the eldest son was a good son to his old