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CHINESE FABLES AND FOLK STORIES
den where the birds were singing. He put a flower on his father's breast and asked, "Father, do you like that? I do."
All this caused Tsen-Tsze's father to think, and in his heart he said, "This boy is not like other children of his age." And so long as he had life, he never beat his son again.
Tsen-Tsze became a great scholar and finished all his studies when he was only twenty-five years old. And he was a wise and good man.
His own generation and all the generations of man that have come after him have studied about him, and have wished to be as he was.
