Once upon a time, there were three brothers who lived with their father who was an old king.
Answers
Explanation:
can any one provide summary of this extract ?Once upon a time, there were three brothers who lived with their father who was an old king. One day he said, "I will not live long now. Today you must start out into the world. In a year, bring back the best thing you have found. The one who can pick the best thing shall be the new king." The first brother decided to look in every city or town and buy the best thing for his father." The next brother decided to go on fast ships over the sea to find something better. The last brother said, "I am going to ask the people here in our own land to tell me the best thing." The other two brothers began to laugh and said, "Then you will never be king!" The last brother started off. He found a small brown bird. It had been hurt, so he put it in his coat where it could keep warm. As he went on, he saw a little girl crying. He ran to meet her. "Why are you crying?" he asked. "I want to get some water from the well," she said. The brother said, "Hold this bird and I will help you." "What a pretty bird!" she said. "I wish you would give it to me. If you will let me keep it, I will take care of it myself." "Yes, you may have it," said the brother. So he gave her the bird and went on. He always stopped to help people who needed it. Soon he made many friends. All the people began to like him. They would say, "See there goes the king's son. He would be just the right kind of king for us." He still had no beautiful thing to take to his father. Just before the year was done, he went home again. The time came when the king called his sons together. "What did you bring?" He asked them all. The other brothers had many beautiful things. "And what did you bring?" said the king to the last brother. "This is too funny!" said the other brothers. "He has nothing!" The king asked again "What did you bring me?" "I bring only the friendship of your people," said the last brother. "That is the best thing!" cried his father. "You shall be the new king."