A Handful of Dates

In this, a man, or boy, recalls a story from his past. The majority of it deals with him, his grandfather and a man named Masood. The grandfather calls Masood an indolent man because Masoood had inherited a grove of date palms. Each time Masood would marry, he would sell a little more of his palms to the grandfather. The grandfather saw this eventually leading to Masood selling all of them to him. When the time to harvest them came, Masood had gotten none of the dates while the grandfather got 5 sacks and was still owed more from Masood. This led to the grandson secretly despising his grandfather.