“The second, ‘I love my father as dearly as my prettiest dress.’ But the youngest was silent.

“Then the father said, ‘And thou, my dearest child, how much dost thou love me?’

“ ‘I do not know, and can compare my love with nothing.’ But her father insisted that she should name something. So she said at last, ‘The best food does not please me without salt, therefore I love my father like salt.’