Çevrimiçi

An Enlightening Tale

This was a very honest beggar.

One day he knocked at the door of a luxurious mansion. The butler came out and said, "Yes, sir. What do you wish, my good man?"

The beggar answered, "Just a bit of charity, for the love of God."

"I shall have to take this up with the lady of the house."
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The butler consulted with the lady of the house and she, who was very miserly, answered. "Jeremiah, give that good man a loaf of bread. One only. And, if possible, one from yesterday."

Jeremiah, who was secretly in love with his employer, in order to please her sought out a stale loaf of bread, hard as a rock, and handed it to the beggar.


"Here you are, my good man," he said, no longer calling him sir.

"God bless you," the beggar answered.

by Fernando Sorrentino
Translated by Clark M. Zlotchew

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