Once upon a time there lived a greedy miller. His small water mill stood on the bank of a small river. At the edge of the forest, the miller blocked the river with a large dam. Behind the dam, a lot of water collected, so it turned out to be a whole lake. Through a special pipe, water flowed from a great height onto the mill wheel and thereby set it in motion. Every day he ground many bags of grain in his mill.
One day a miller noticed a small crack in the wall of the dam. He was advised to repair it immediately so that no misfortune would happen. But the greedy miller said that such a trifle was not even worth talking about and that a few drops that seeped through the crack could not damage the dam. In fact, he simply did not want to spend time and money on repairs. In the evening the crack became wider. The workers at the mill brought this to the attention of the miller and asked him to repair the crack. But the miller's greed overshadowed his common sense.
“It’s too late today,” he said, “we’ll wait until tomorrow.”
At midnight the miller woke up from a loud noise. He jumped out of bed, ran down the stairs and saw that the dam had broken and the water was spreading from the dam. The miller saw that almost all of his fields were flooded with water. Small reason, but what big consequences!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru