There was a poor but wise Chinese farmer who worked the land with his son. One day, their horse went missing. A few days later, it returned with another horse. When the son tried to ride the new horse, it threw him off and broke his leg. Some time later, soldiers came to recruit young men for the army but passed over the son due to his injured leg. The son realized that one should not view misfortune or fortune as absolute, but give time for outcomes to become clear.

1. There was once a Chinese, poor
but wise farmer, who worked the
Earth with his son hard.

2. A day the son
said to him:
Father, what
displeases!
Us has gone
away the horse!

3. Because flames displease to him? - the
father responded - We will see what
brings the time…
To the few days the horse returned,
accompanied of another horse.

4. Father, what luck! - the boy exclaimed
this time - Our horse has brought
another horse.
Because him flames luck? - the father
replaced - We see what brings the time
to us…

5. In a few days
more, the boy
wanted to
mount the new
horse, and this
one, not
customary to
the rider, was
reared and it
threw it to the
ground.

6. The boy
became
broken a leg…
-Father, what
displeases! -
the boy
exclaimed
now -.
-I have
become
broken the
leg!

7. And the father, retaking his
experience and wisdom, sentenced:
- Because flames displease to him? -
We see what brings the time…

8. Few days
later
passed by
the village
the
envoys of
the king,
looking
for young
for to take
the war.

9. They came to
the house
from the old
one, but as
they saw the
young person
with its
bandaged leg,
they left it
and they
followed of
length.

10. The young person understood then whom
never there is to give neither to the
misfortune nor the fortune like absolute,
but that always is necessary to give time
to the time, to see if something is bad or
good.