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When he came back the father again asked: 'My son, what have you

learnt?' He answered: 'Father, I have learnt what the birds say.'

Then the father fell into a rage and said: 'Oh, you lost man, you

have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not

ashamed to appear before my eyes?

I will send you to a third master, but if you learn nothing this

time also, I will no longer be your father.' The youth remained a

whole year with the third master also, and when he came home

again, and his father inquired: 'My son, what have you learnt?'

he answered: 'Dear father, I have this year learnt what the frogs

croak.' Then the father fell into the most furious anger, sprang

up, called his people thither, and said: 'This man is no longer

my son, I drive him forth, and command you to take him out into

the forest, and kill him.' They took him forth, but when they

should have killed him, they could not do it for pity, and let

him go, and they cut the eyes and tongue out of a deer that they

might carry them to the old man as a token.