The old man had an unlucky son, he did not obey his father in anything and avoided his words as best he could. The father did not know how to cope with him and decided to drive a log into the middle of the yard and every time his son disobeyed him, he hammered one nail into this log. The moment came when there was no longer room for nails on the log. Looking at this, the son was horrified and decided to correct himself.
And his father began to pull out one nail from the log for each good deed. And on the day when the last nail was pulled out, the son looked at the log and began to cry. To the elder’s question “Why?”, the son answered: “But traces remained...”
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