Aesop’s Fables: The Old Man and Death 伊索寓言：老人和死神

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Aesop’s Fables: The Old Man and Death

伊索寓言：老人和死神

AN OLD labourer, bent double with age and toil, was gathering sticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that he threw down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: “I cannot bear this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would only come and take me!”	1
As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to him: “What wouldst thou, Mortal? I heard thee call me.”	2
“Please, sir,” replied the woodcutter, “would you kindly help me to lift this faggot of sticks on to my shoulder?”          “WE WOULD OFTEN BE SORRY IF OUR WISHES WERE GRATIFIED.”

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q and a:

1q An old What? 

Ans=laborer/worker

2q What was he doing in a forest? 

Ans=gathering sticks

3q. Who did he ask for? 

Ans=Death

4q What did Death look like? 

Ans= a grisly skeleton

5q What did the old man want of Death? 

Ans= to lift a faggot of sticks to h

is shoulder

Bq= What's the moral? 

Ans=we would often be sorry 

if our wishes were answered.

 fs=Death heard the old man calling him. If Death knew what the old man wanted originally, he would take him.Death is not a neighbor to call upon for a favor. The old man called Death to help him.He didn't want Death to take him. Be careful what you ask for.