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Podcast: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Episode: THE CHEST OF BROKEN GLASS and FEDERALIST No. 55 by JAMES MADISON
Description: The Chest of broken Glass is an old folk tale about a father who has grown old- to old to care for himself, and in order to gain more time from his three sons who only visit now and then, fills an old locked chect with broken glass. The sons, upon seeing the chect, and hearing the content inside, believe their father has filled it with gold, and decide to take turns living with and caring for their father further into his old age. In Federalist No. 55 one of our nations founders James Madison, admits that for o...