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seemed the baby boy had no desire from nor demand upon theworld which allowed his ever-toiling mother to lay him up in awooden dish. Unless his mother remembered his needs, he couldnot even cry for his food.This silent, speechless boy grew up to be what he was.Whether he got sick or met with other troubles, he would not somuch as make a whine, but slept or sat through the day, neithereating nor drinking. Though dad and mum would make everyenquiry of his ills, he chose to remain dumb. This exasperated hisparents not a little.From an early age the boy was very blunt in word. He had nouse for flattery or fawning. He could less practise fraud ortrickery. Of such a nature as he was, he could not perpetrate awicked plot. Should he try to work a little mischief, he would but“wrap burning charcoal in thin paper.” Often he would end up thebutt of this joke, “There are not three hundred dollars buried here,Nor has Second Uncle next door stolen them.”The boy’s stupidity earned him loss of parental affection. Thiswas accentuated by the intelligence and smartness of his elderbrother. Under such contrast the parents became the moreestranged from the child. They had little hope of his making goodwhen he grew up. So they bent all their energies to bring up thebig son. They saw as wasted effort any struggle to nurture onewho gave them such little promise. Such a conclusion by hisfather was not without reason. He had seen how his youngerbrother (i.e. the boy’s uncle) weep over his text book for a wholeday under their father’s tutoring, which made their father so madthat he threw away the book up an idol-house, and how he had tostop schooling thereafter. To this day an illiterate he has remained,but remorse was of no avail. The boy, being a chip of his uncle’sblock, could not have incited any feeling in his father than despair.But the Lord says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens8