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A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and

sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and

could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw

him they said: 'There's a fellow who will give his father some

trouble!' When anything had to be done, it was always the elder

who was forced to do it; but if his father bade him fetch

anything when it was late, or in the night-time, and the way led

through the churchyard, or any other dismal place, he answered:

'Oh, no father, I'll not go there, it makes me shudder!' for he

was afraid. Or when stories were told by the fire at night which

made the flesh creep, the listeners sometimes said: 'Oh, it makes

us shudder!' The younger sat in a corner and listened with the

rest of them, and could not imagine what they could mean. 'They

are always saying: "It makes me shudder, it makes me shudder!" It

does not make me shudder,' thought he. 'That, too, must be an art

of which I understand nothing!'