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The Child and The Offal

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　Shepherds sacrificed a goat in the open field

　to treat their neighbors.

　Of those treated neighbors, there was a poor woman who brought her child.

　While eating the sacrificed treat with other neighbors,

　the child ate too much and felt sick.

“Mom, I feel like vomiting my stomach.”

　He said to his mother, and then she replied,

“You're not vomiting your stomach,

　but vomiting the offal that you ate.”



　This story

　compares people who are always borrowing money.

　When they have to return the money,

　they tend to feel as if their own money were deprived, and then grieve over it.

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