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THE PAPER BAG
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humble, confessed everything, and asked his brother to forgive him.
Musai spoke kindly to him, and said that this punishment had come to him on account of his envy and jealousy, which bring happiness to no one.
Then he took the paper bag, and gently rubbed Chô's nose with it. Gradually this became shorter and shorter, until at last it resumed its former shape.
This was a lesson that Chô was not allowed to forget, because whenever after this he attempted to do anything mean or dishonest, his nose would become sore, and in his terror lest it should grow again, he trained himself to live as a kindly, well-disposed man should do.
