FIFTH FOLK TALE: THE RAM AND HIS FRIEND

OBJECTIVES:

a. To appreciate blood ties and happy journeys which relatives often make.
b. To appreciate how relatives may cause us anxiety.
c. To learn, even from a fool.
d. To appreciate the relative status of a wife and mother.


There was a ram and his mother and his sister.  Every day they would go for a walk.  One day his mother and his sister went away and left him.  He ran about trying to find them.  He came to a friend, another ram, and said, "Friend, did you see our womenfolks go along here?" The ram said, "No, I did not see your women folks here.  Only your mother and your sister.  I saw them pass here, but I never have seen your women folks."

The ram said, "Never did I see any one so dumb as you are.  You are the dumbest person left in the world.  Who is my mother, not to mention my sister?  If a man has a mother and a sister, they are like a wife to him.  Or is a mother not a woman?  You are dumb, my mother is my head woman.  A wife will do for you the same things which a mother will do for you."

This thing is true.  A mother and a wife are about alike. Some say that a wife is better than a mother, but it is not true.

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