The Crying Stone
 

    Once upon a time lived a poor old widow in a small village in West Kalimantan. She lived with her daughter. Her daughter was very beautiful but very lazy and arrogant. She never helped her mother and didn't want to know the problem that her mother had. Every day, she put make up and wore her best clothes. She always wanted to make herself look rich and beautiful.

    One day, the mother and her daughter went to the market to buy some food. At first, the daughter refused to accompany her mother, but finally she agreed. "I'll go with you, but you must walk behind me," said the daughter. She didn't want to walk side by side with her mother. Although her mother was very sad, she agreed to walk behind her daughter.

    On way to the market, everybody admired the girl's beauty. But they were also curious with the woman with a simple dress walking behind her. The girl and her mother looked very different. "Hello, girl. Who is the old woman behind you? Is she your mother?" they asked. "No, she is not my mother. She is my servant," the girl answered. Her mother was very sad to hear that, but she didn't say anything. She could understand that her daughter was ashamed.

    The girl and the mother met other people. Again they asked who the woman behind the beautiful girl. And again the girl answered that her mother was her servant. She always repeated her answer every time people asked about the woman.

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