摘要
THE following story is supplementary reading for grade schools in China: A long time ago, there lived a boy monk in a temple on the mountain. His daily tasks were to clean the temple yard early each morning, fetch water and, after his morning scripture class, walk down the
THE following story is supplementary reading for grade schools in China： A long time ago, there lived a boy monk in a temple on the mountain. His daily tasks were to clean the temple yard early each morning, fetch water and, after his morning scripture class, walk down the rocky road to a distant lown behind the temple to buy articles of daily use. Every evening, he and his fellow monks chanted scriptures till midnight.
