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Scolar and his Student were walking along the edge of some fields ..
When they saw lying in path a pair of old shoes.
Which they supposed belonged to a poor man Who was working in the field.
The Student turned to his teacher saying: “Let us play the man a trick.
we will hide his shoe and conceal ourselves behind those bushes and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them”
The Scholar answered “My dear young friend.
we should never amuse ourself at the expense of the poor.
For you are rich and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of this poor man.
Put a coin in each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how this affects him”
The student did so and. and they both placed themselves behind the bushes…
The poor man soon finished his work,
and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoe.
He slipped his foot into one of his shoe but feeling some thing hard,
he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin!
Astonishment and wonder where seen upon his countenance.
He gazed upon the coin, turned it around and looked at it again and again!
He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen,
He now put the coin in his pocket,
and proceeded to put on the other shoe.
But his suprise was doubled upon finding the other coin.
His feelings overcame him.
He fell to his knees, looked up to the heavens and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving,
in which he spoke of his wife who was sick and helpless,
his weak children without bread.
With his moist eyes he started to walk his way thanking the lord
and the bounty from the unknown hand
After the poor man left the student rose,
deeply affected,and his eyes filled with tears.
”Now” said his master.”
Are you not much pleased than if you had played your intended trick?”
The youth replied:
“You have taught me a lesson which i will never forget.
I feel now the truth of these words, which i never undertood before”
“More blessed it is to give than to receive.”
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