This is a really funny story about a water carrier who works for enough money to buy just two meals a day. Until one day he gets a little extra so he stores it behind a brick in the city wall. One day he gets married and wants to buy nice things for his wife so he sets off running on a very hot day to retrieve this coin. The king sees this man and tells his guards to go get him. The king was curious as to why the man was so happy. When the king had the man in front of him and found out the man was running to get his treasure he wondered how much the treasure was. When he found out it was one coin he offered to give the man one coin so he did not have to run anymore. The man said thanks but he would still go retrieve the coin as well as take the one the king offered. The king raised the offer trying to get the man to forget about the one coin but the man did not change his mind until the king offered half of his kingdom. The man gladly accepted this offer and agreed to forget about the one coin. Until, the king asked him what half of the kingdom he wanted and the man chose the side that the coin was hidden on so he actually got the coin in the end.
Photo found here. Book available in the reserves of the Bizzell Library at the University of Oklahoma. By: Subba Rao, Chandakant Rane, and Anant Pai
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