THREE PEACHES
A farmer brought back from town one day three beautiful peaches. Never having seen any finer ones, his three boys looked at the fruit with rapture. The farmer shared the peaches among them. On the same evening the father asked them how they enjoyed the fruit. “Mine was delicious,” said the eldest. “1 have carefully kept the kernel and will plant it to grow a tree.” “Very well,” replied the farmer. “You are a far-sighted boy, and will make a good farmer.” “It ate mine at once,” cried the youngest child, “and threw the kernel away. What a treat it was!” “You are not as prudent as your eldest brother,” said his father. “You acted like the child you are. What about you, Edmund?” Edmund hesitated, and then answered: “I took my peach to George, our neighbour’s child, who is in bed. He did not want it, so I laid it on the bed, and left.” “Well, children,” said the farmer, which of you three did best?” “Edmund did!” called out the other boys together.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 12
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177THREE PEACHES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 12
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