World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 10 Climbing Grass

A creeping vine grew in the garden, and it soon grew around the dry stake.There was also a young oak tree growing in a field not far away.

"That oak tree is so ugly, what good is it?" the climbing vine said to the stake in a low voice, "how can it compare with you! Your back is straight, and you look like a lady in front of it .Look, the leaves on the oak tree are so rough and ugly in color. Why does the earth support it?"

A week later, the master cut the stake for firewood and transplanted the oak tree into the garden.The master's labor has yielded a great harvest, and the oak tree has taken root and sprouted, and its branches and leaves are luxuriant.And the creeping grass had already spread around the oak tree, and began to praise it.

(End of this chapter)