<h3><SPAN name="chap145"></SPAN>145 The Ungrateful Son</h3>
<p>A man and his wife were once sitting by the door of their house, and they had a
roasted chicken set before them, and were about to eat it together. Then the
man saw that his aged father was coming, and hastily took the chicken and hid
it, for he would not permit him to have any of it. The old man came, took a
drink, and went away. Now the son wanted to put the roasted chicken on the
table again, but when he took it up, it had become a great toad, which jumped
into his face and sat there and never went away again, and if any one wanted to
take it off, it looked venomously at him as if it would jump in his face, so
that no one would venture to touch it. And the ungrateful son was forced to
feed the toad every day, or else it fed itself on his face; and thus he went
about the world without knowing rest.</p>
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