THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN, 22]

full of nothing but glass! « Why!” cried the
brothers, “ our father has left us nothing but glass !”
But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would
have fallen upon and beaten each other in their wrath.
So the children of the old man saw that their father
had made fools of them. Then all the people mocked
them: “You see what you have gained by sending
your father to school! You see he learned something
at school after all! He was a long time before he
began learning, but better late than never. It
appears to us ‘twas aright good school you sent him to.
No doubt they whipped him into learning so much.
Never mind, you can keep the money and the casket!”
Then the brothers were full of lamentation and rage,
But what could they do? their father was already
dead and buried.