乡人多以树之丫叉，支为坐凳者。 父命其子求之山中，子持斧去，竞日，徒手归。你责之。子曰：“丫叉尽有，奈都是朝上生的。”
——《笑府》
Tree Forks
The
people living on a certain mountain use tree forks for stool legs. A
father sent his son to get one. The son took an axe and went. But at the end of
the day he came back empty-handed. When his father scolded him, he answered, “Of
course, there are plenty of tree forks there but they all grow upwards.”
Xiao Fu (Treasure-House of Jokes) （杨宪益、戴乃迭 译） |
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