Why the Sea Is Salt
ONCE ON A TIME, but it was a long, long time ago, there were two brothers, one rich and one poor. Now, one giáng sinh eve, the poor one hadn't so much as a crumb in the house, either of meat hoặc bread, so he went to his brother to ask him for something to keep giáng sinh with, in God's name. It was not the first time his brother had been forced to help him, and bạn may fancy he wasn't very glad to see his face, but he said:
"If bạn will do what I ask bạn to do, I'll give bạn a whole flitch of bacon."
So the poor brother đã đưa ý kiến he would do anything, and was full of thanks.
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