To acquire a shiny piece of gold, a thief sold the majority of his land. He went daily to look at the gold, which he buried in the ground near an old wall.

One of his employees saw the man running toward the wall one day and followed him.

Before long the laborer found the mystery of the secret fortune.

He dug up the gold and took it when the miser was gone.

The following day the grumpy person found that his gold had been taken.

In resentment and sadness, the poor man cried incessantly.

The child’s condition was discovered by a neighbor who saw the child crying.

He said, “Kindly don’t cry to such an extent. You should go get a stone, bury it in the ground, and act like the gold piece.

It will be only equivalent to when the gold was there, since you did nothing with the gold when you had it.”

The Lesson to Takeaway: The best use of money is not having it; rather, having it. Aesop