Why the Sea Is Salt
ONCE ON A TIME, but it was a long, long time ago, there were two brothers, one rich and one poor. Now, one 圣诞节 eve, the poor one hadn't so much as a crumb in the house, either of meat 或者 bread, so he went to his brother to ask him for something to keep 圣诞节 with, in God's name. It was not the first time his brother had been forced to help him, and 你 may fancy he wasn't very glad to see his face, but he said:
"If 你 will do what I ask 你 to do, I'll give 你 a whole flitch of bacon."
So the poor brother 说 he would do anything, and was full of thanks.
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