Spanish Bred
By bluepanjeet on Jan 18, 2008 in Morsels Of Meaning
A third grade boy had won a medal as the best reader in class. Puffed with pride, he boasted to the maid at home, “Let’s see if you can read as well as I can, Consuelo.”
The good woman took the book, looked at it closely, and finally stammered,
“Why, Billy, I don’t know how to read.”
Proud as a peacock, the little fellow ran into the living room and fairly shouted to his father:
“Dad, Consuelo doesn’t know how to read and I - only eight years old - got a medal for reading. I wonder how she feels, looking at the book she cannot read.”
Without a word, his father went over to the bookshelf, took down a volume, and handed it to the boy, saying,
“she feels like this”
The book was in Spanish and Billy could not read a line of it.
The boy never forgot that lesson.
Whenever he feels like boasting he quietly reminds himself,
“remember, you can’t read Spanish”
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from the book “1000 Stories” by Fr. Frank Mihalic SVD
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6 Comment(s)
By Win $250 on Jan 19, 2008 | Reply
I like the moral of the story
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By bluepanjeet on Jan 19, 2008 | Reply
What is the moral of the story? haha just kidding.
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By kengkay on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply
the moral of the story is i can read german, hehehe
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By bluepanjeet on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply
Hahaha Korek! Papatutor ako sayo lol.
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By MegaMom on Jan 27, 2008 | Reply
Probably written by an American, hehehe. Joke:
What do you call a person who can speak two languages? Answer: bilingual
What do you call a person who can speak only one language? Answer: American
hehehe… with apologies to my American friends who are multilingual.
Je suis francophone et Yo hablo espanol. Tagalog at Ilokano pati. Wa na akong masabi, bow.
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By MegaMom on Jan 27, 2008 | Reply
hehehe… obviously moral of this story was lost on me
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