GYPSY FOLK-TALES
CHAPTER I
TURKISH-GYPSY STORIES
No. 1.—The Dead Man’s Gratitude[1]
A king had three sons. He gave the youngest a hundred thousand piastres; he gave the same to the eldest son and to the middle one. The youngest arose, he took the road; wherever he found poor folk he gave money; here, there, he gave it away; he spent the money. His eldest brother went, had ships built to make money. And the middle one went, had shops built. They came to their father.
‘What have you done, my son?’
‘I have built ships.’
To the youngest, ‘You, what have you done?’