Page 70 - Moral Stories Vol 2

lie on his mat the whole day long. Soon he became so weak that he could not even sit up on his mat.
The neighbours rejoiced and took advantage of the situation. They built a wall across the widow's courtyard and claimed a part of the house as their own. In the fields they shifted their boundaries to enclose large portions of the widow's lands.
The younger sons could not deal with the situation and one day they said to their mother: "If our elder brother was not bed-ridden, such terrible things would not have happened to us."
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