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We still say that we are clever, but our elders go and quarrel with us and say, "No, we had more sense than you. " But the tale tells that, even when our grandfathers had not learned their lessons and our great-great-great-great-grandfathers had not been born, in a certain kingdom, in a certain land, once there lived an old man who had taught his three sons reading and writing.
"Now, children," he said to them, "I shall die; do you come and read prayers over my grave."