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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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