Long Long Ago

అనగా అనగా..........

Once upon a time, there was a king. He had a son. He noticed that his child became lazy because of over petting. That’s why only the boy didn’t learn single quality though he got 15 years age. The king felt so bad about it and was thoughtful to eliminate the laziness from the boy.

Then one day, he called on his son and asked him to earn two silver coins on his own industry before sunset. When he asked the boy to show his earnings at the time of dinner, the boy gave two silver coins to the king. The king threw them into fire. The boy kept calm and finished his dinner. The king knew through his spying agents that the boy requested the queen and taken two silver coins from her.

The king ordered him to continue the earning for next day also. Same incidents were repeated at the time of dinner. This time the boy got the coins from the Minister. Next day the boy collected them from royal employees. But the king didn’t stopped strategy. Days turn into months. By collecting money from employees, the prince got deglammoured and unpopular. In spite of this, the king didn’t stop to the prince to show his earning.

After getting disgust, the prince one day approached a brazier and asked him for a job work. By doing assistant work throughout the day to brazier, he earned two silver coins before sunset. With great self-satisfaction and joy the boy, i.e. prince approached his father and gave two silver coins to him. As usual the king threw them into fire. But this time, the boy had jumped to near fire and picked out the silver coins from fire with a stick and asked his father with angry as “Dad! Why you throw them into fire? Do you know, how much painful to earn them?”

By watching this, the king felt very happy and council the boy about the real joy of working, how much care should be take towards the result of industry. After noticing this with practical experience, the prince became a generous, sincere and good king as time passed.

This is the story!

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