PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN

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Original Author: Aesop

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     A boy stole a writing tablets from one of his schoomates, and took it home to his mother.

Instead of giving him a sound thrashing, she told him what a claver little chap he was.
     When he grew up, he began to steal more valuable things, until one day he was caught in the act and sentence to death. Among the crowd that lined the road to the place of execution was his mother wailing and beating her breast, and obtain permission to whisper one word to her. She ran up to him and put her ear close to his mouth. Whereupon he seized it between his teeth and bit it off.
     She screamed, and the crowd joined her in reproaching the unnatural son. "Goodness," they cried, "to end up by doing such a thing to his mother, as if his wicked past were not enough!"
     But he replied to them, "she''s been the ruin of me. If she''d have given me the stick when I stole that writing tablets, I''d never have stood where I stand today."

Published: December 26, 2007

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