THE FARMER AND HIS SONS Lida Brown McMurry

"Boys, why are you always quarreling? That is no way to live,"

said a farmer to his sons one day.

The sons would not listen to their father. Each wanted the best of

everything. Each thought the father did more for the others than

for him.The father bore the quarreling as long as he could. One day he

called his seven sons to him. He had in his hand a bundle of seven

sticks."I wish to see which one of you can break this bundle of sticks,"

he said.

The oldest one tried first. He was the strongest, but he could not

break it though he used all his strength. Then each of his

brothers tried hard to break the bundle. None of them could break it.

At last they gave the bundle of sticks back to their father,

saying, "We cannot break it."

The father untied the bundle and gave each son one stick.

"Now see if you can break the sticks," said their father.

They all said, "That is very easily done," and they held up the

broken sticks.

"Now tell us why you asked us to break these sticks," said the

sons.

"Do you not see," replied the father, "that if you all stand

together, nothing can harm you; but if each of you stands by

himself, you may easily be ruined?"

A farmer lived in a village with his five
. The sons were badly behaved; they
and didnt help their father. The farmer worried about the
of his farm. He had an idea. He gave his sons a
of sticks and told them to break it in half. They couldnt do it. He told them to separate
the sticks from the bundle and try breaking each of the sticks
. They broke all the sticks
, in less than a minute. The farmer explained that the bundle of sticks showed that there
is in unity. The sons became good and
This made the farmer happy

-the lessons that the parents transmited to his sons are the most important knowledge. My friend
b english with it.

- I think we should live in harmony and we are to cooperate with each other thats all what we wanna
realize