One greedy man lost his wallet, which contained one hundred gold coins. No matter how he searched, no matter how hard he tried, no matter how much he grieved, he found nothing. Then he announced: “Whoever finds my wallet and returns the money to me, I will give ten gold coins in gratitude.”
One good man found this wallet and gave it to a miser.
“Give me the ten gold pieces you promised,” he tells him.
“There were one hundred and ten gold pieces in this wallet,” answered the stingy one, “but now there is only one hundred.” You still have ten coins. You've already got your share! What else do you want from me?
The man went to the judge and told him everything. The judge called the miser and asked:
- Why don’t you give him his share?
“Yes, he himself already took it from this wallet,” he answers. “What will I give him?”
The judge took the wallet, examined it and tied it in the same way as it was tied before. Then he says to the miser:
- If there were one hundred and ten gold coins in your wallet, but there are only one hundred here, then it is clear that the wallet is not yours. Go look for your wallet yourself, and give this one to the person who found it. When the owner of the wallet comes, he will return it to him.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru