The Hunchback Poor Man
By kolait
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Rumored that there was a woman makes bread for her family every day, and makes an additional loaf of bread per day to any poor hungry person and put the extra loaf on the balcony window so that any poor person passing by the house can take it. Each day, a poor Hunchback man passes and takes the Loaf and instead of showing gratitude to the people of the house he says "the evil that you do will come back to you, and the good that you do will come back to you! ".. Every day the Hunchback poor man goes and take the loaf of bread saying the same words.So the women began to feel mad at him because he wasn't showing gratitude to her. So she said to herself " Every day that man passes by taking the bread repeating his mysterious sentence and goes! what does he mean?". Hence she decided to get rid of this guy by adding some poison into the loaf of bread. when she finished baking the poisoned bread she was about to put it on the window, but her hands began to flutter " What am i doing?! " she said to herself immediately. After that she decided to put the loaf of bread in the fire, and bake a new one to place it on the window. And as usual the Hunchback came and took the loaf saying his mysterious words " the evil that you do will come back to you, and the good that you do will come back to you! ". Each day,when the woman makes the bread, she prays for her son, who immigrated for many years to search for his future, to return to her safely .The woman didn't receive news of him since a long time .On that day, when she got rid of the poisoned loaf of bread, the door of the house was knocked. The woman opened the door and found her son standing by the door !! He was pale and tired, his clothes were almost torn, and he was hungry. Once saw his mother he said, "It is a miracle I am here. At a very far distance from here i was tired and was I feeling sick to the point of collapse on the road. I almost died of starvation without the help of a Hunchback poor man. I begged him to give me any food with him, and the man was good to the extent that he gave me a whole loaf of bread to eat it !! While he was giving me the loaf of bread he said that this was his food every day, and today he will give it to me because I need it a lot " Once the mother heard this speech horror appeared on her face so she leaned on the door and I remembered the poisoned bread which she made this morning !! So she said to herself" if i haven't got rid of the poisoned loaf of bread in the fire, my son would've lost his life!" Thus she realized the meaning of the words of Hunchback man (the evil that you offer will come back to you, and the good that you offer will come back to you !)
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An interesting moral.
An interesting moral.
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