Selfish man story

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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