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Search, buy, sell, sorted. Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host, John Hagadorn.

Today, an old tale called The Chest of Broken Glass.

Responsibilities of parents and children toward each other change with age, particularly old age. Old men are children for a second time, the Greek

dramatist Aristophanes said. This tale is about that time in life when caring about someone

means taking care of them.

"'The obligation to, honor thy father and mother,

"'does not end when father and mother grow old.'

"'Once there was an old man who had lost his wife and lived all alone.

"'He had worked hard as a tailor all his life,

but misfortunes had left him penniless, and now he was so old he could no longer work for himself.

His hands trembled too much to thread a needle, and his vision had blurred too much for him to make

a straight stitch. He had three sons, but they were all grown and married now,

and they were so busy with their own lives, they only had time to stop by and eat dinner with their

father once a week. Gradually, the old man grew more and more feeble, and his sons came by to see

him less and less.

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