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A farmer and his boys

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　There was a farmer who was feeling his death.

　He wanted to train his sons a good work of a farmer before he dies.

　Then he called his sons and said,

“My boys, I will be gone soon,”he says,

　“but you should go find the thing I hid in the vine yard. There will be a treasure.”

　The boys thought that their father hid the real treasure somewhere in a yard.

　So after their father’s death, they dug deep every spot in the vine yard.

　But no matter how far they dug deep, there was no treasures to be found.

　However the yard gave abundant harvest, hundreds of times as usual by their hard work.


　This story tells you that a labor itself is the treasure.

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