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firewood every day and sell it but now my poor old donkey is weak and dying
from hunger. If you would like to help me, please give me some bread."
The sultan took pity on the old man and asked, "How much do you ask for
your load of firewood?" The woodcutter told the sultan that rather than selling
him the firewood, he would give it to him. When the sultan declined to accept
the offer, the woodcutter said, "As you do not wish to take the load as a gift
and I do not want to sell it, then give me a purse of gold."
The soldiers gasped at the woodcutter's request and said, "Watch what you
are saying old man. Your firewood is not worth even a handful of barley – it is
worthless!" The old woodcutter turned to the soldiers and replied, "That may
be the case but its value has changed. When a blessed man such as the
sultan touches a bundle of thorns they become roses. If he wishes to have
them then he must give at least a dinar for each because he has increased
their value a hundred times by touching them." Sultan Idris smiled and
instructed the old woodcutter to be given a purse of gold.
THE END
from hunger. If you would like to help me, please give me some bread."
The sultan took pity on the old man and asked, "How much do you ask for
your load of firewood?" The woodcutter told the sultan that rather than selling
him the firewood, he would give it to him. When the sultan declined to accept
the offer, the woodcutter said, "As you do not wish to take the load as a gift
and I do not want to sell it, then give me a purse of gold."
The soldiers gasped at the woodcutter's request and said, "Watch what you
are saying old man. Your firewood is not worth even a handful of barley – it is
worthless!" The old woodcutter turned to the soldiers and replied, "That may
be the case but its value has changed. When a blessed man such as the
sultan touches a bundle of thorns they become roses. If he wishes to have
them then he must give at least a dinar for each because he has increased
their value a hundred times by touching them." Sultan Idris smiled and
instructed the old woodcutter to be given a purse of gold.
THE END