Two brothers, one a bachelor, the other married, owned a farm whose fertile soil
yielded an abundance of grain. Half the grain went to one brother and half to the
other.
All went well at first. Then, every now and then, the married man began to wake
with a start from his sleep at night and think: “This isn’t fair. My brother isn’t
married and he gets half the produce of the farm. Here I am with a wife and five
kids, so I have all the security I need for my old age. But who will care for my
poor brother when he gets old? He needs to save much more for the future than he
does at present, so his need is obviously greater than mine.”
With that he would get out of bed, steal over to his brother’s place and pour a
sack full of grain into his brother’s granary.
The bachelor too began to get these nightly attacks. Every once in a while he
would wake from his sleep and say to himself: “This simply isn’t fair. My brother
has a wife and five kids and he gets half the produce of the land. Now I have no
one except myself to support. So is it just that my poor brother, whose need is
obviously greater than mine, should receive exactly as much as I do?”
Then he would get out of bed and pour a sack full of grain into his brother’s granary.
🙂
Two brothers, one a bachelor, the other married, owned a farm whose fertile soil
yielded an abundance of grain. Half the grain went to one brother and half to the
other.
All went well at first. Then, every now and then, the married man began to wake
with a start from his sleep at night and think: “This isn’t fair. My brother isn’t
married and he gets half the produce of the farm. Here I am with a wife and five
kids, so I have all the security I need for my old age. But who will care for my
poor brother when he gets old? He needs to save much more for the future than he
does at present, so his need is obviously greater than mine.”
With that he would get out of bed, steal over to his brother’s place and pour a
sack full of grain into his brother’s granary.
The bachelor too began to get these nightly attacks. Every once in a while he
would wake from his sleep and say to himself: “This simply isn’t fair. My brother
has a wife and five kids and he gets half the produce of the land. Now I have no
one except myself to support. So is it just that my poor brother, whose need is
obviously greater than mine, should receive exactly as much as I do?”
Then he would get out of bed and pour a sack full of grain into his brother’s granary.
🙂