THE SELFISH MAN
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 job 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 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 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 man that if anybody reports that they have found forty gold
coins he will send for him. It was then that the man confessed that he lied and
that he lost thirty gold coins but the judge did not listen to him.
This story teaches us to be always honest as dishonest never pays.
Say true or false.
1. Man had silver coins with him.
2. Man lost 40 coins.
3. Man got back all his coins.
4. Man who lost coins is a very honnest person in this story.
Questions to be answered
1. Who found the lost gold coins?
2. Who got the gold coins in the last?
3. Who is an honest person according to you in this story?
Write opposite words for the following.
Honnest
Selfish
Friend
Day
Refuse
Lie
4. Write past tense for the following.
Send
Lie
Arrive
Loose
