The Selfish Man

night kids stories

Once upon a time,there was two brothers. One of them is a liar liked everything to be his own a selfish one. He could not share his belongings with anyone, not even his brother or pour.

One day, the man lost ten gold coins. He went to his brother’s house and told him how he lost his gold coins. His brother was a kind man.

As his brother’s son was coming from an errand he found ten gold coins, when he arrived home, he told his father what he had found. The boy’s father told him that the gold coins belong to his brother and he sent for him. When the selfish man arrived, he told him how his son had found his ten gold coins and handed then to him. After counting the gold coins the man said that two of them was missing and had been taken by the boy as he had forty gold coins. He further commented that he will recover the remaining amount from him. But the boy's father refused.

The man left the gold coins and went to the court and informed the judge there about what had taken place between him and the boy’s father.

The judge sent for the boy and his father, and when they arrived asked the boy how many gold coins did he find. He replied ten gold coins. The Judge that asked the selfish man how many gold coins did he lose and he answered twelve gold coins.

The judge then told the man that the gold coins did not belong to him because the boy found ten and not twelve as he claimed to have lost and then told the boy to take the gold coins and that if any- body is looking for them he will send for the boy.

The judge told the man that if anybody reports that they have found twelve gold coins he will send for him. It was then that the man confessed that he lied and that he lost ten gold coins but the judge did not listen to him.

This story teaches us to be always honest.