"The Wonderful Pear Tree" summary:
Once upon a time, a country-man came into the town on market day, and brought a load of very special pears with him to sell. While he was crying up hi fruit, a poor old, ragged, hungry-looking priest stopped just in front of the barrow and very humbly begged him to give one of the pears. But the countryman refused. The countryman has hundreds of pears but the priest only asks for one and he didn’t give any. The constable of the market pulled some cash out of his purse, bought a pear and gave it to the priest.
For he was afraid that the noise would come to the ears of the mandarin. The old priest took the pear with a low bow. He has no home, no family, and no food because he gave up everything to become a priest. He can’t take it how people can be so selfish to refuse to five him one single pear. He ate the pear given by the constable, only leaving single pip.
Then he took a pick, dug a deep hole in the ground, and planted the pip. He then asked for hot water to pour on the pip. While he was pouring they saw first as tiny green sprout, then one leaf uncurled, and the shoots kept growing taller and taller; then there stood before them a young tree with a few branches and a few leaves; and ripe,, huge sweet-smelling pear. The priests face shone with pleasure, and the crowd roared with delight when he picked the pears.
Then the priest took the pick again, hacked at the tree until it fell with a crash .All the time has been going on, the countryman quite forgetting his barrow. When the old priest has gone and the crowd was getting thin, he turned to see his barrow and saw with horror that it was empty.
In a moment he understood what happened. The pears the old priest had been so generous in giving away were the countryman’s.
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