Once upon a time, there was a selfish man. He liked everything to be
his own. He could not share his belongings with anyone, not even his
friends or the poor.
One day, the man lost thirty gold coins. He went to his friend's house
and told him how he lost his gold coins. His friend was a kind man.
As his friend's daughter was coming from an errand she found thirty
gold coins, when she arrived home, she told her father what she had
found. The girl's father told her that the gold coins belong to his
friend and he sent for him. When the selfish man arrived, he told him
how his daughter had found his thirty gold coins and handed then to
him. After counting the gold coins the man said that ten of them was
missing and had been taken by the girl as he had forty gold coins. He
further commented that he will recover the remaining amount from him
(the girl's father). But the father refused.
The selfish man left the gold coins and went to the court and informed
the judge there about what had taken place between him and the girl's
father.
The judge sent for the girl and her father, and when they arrived
asked the girl how many gold coins did she find. She replied thirty
gold coins. The Judge that asked the selfish man how many gold coins
did he lose and he answered forty gold coins.
The judge then told the selfish man that the gold coins did not belong
to him because the girl found thirty and not forty as he claimed to
have lost and then told the girl to take the gold coins and that if
anybody is looking for them he will send for the girl.
The judge told the selfish man that if anybody reports that they have
found forty gold coins he will send for him. It was then that the
selfish man confessed that he lied and that he lost thirty gold coins
but the judge did not listen to him.
Moral:This story of honesty teaches us to be always honest as
dishonest never pays.
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