TWILIGHT LAND

had borrowed just such a loaf of bread from the rich man’s
wife ; and so, as there was plenty in the house without it,
she wrapped this loaf up in a napkin, and sent her
husband back with it to where it had started from first
of all.

““Well,” said the rich man to his wife, “the way of
Heaven is not to be changed.” And so he laid the money
on the shelf until he who had given it to him should come
again, and thought no more of giving it to the beggar.

At the end of seven days the king called upon the rich
man again, and this time he came in his own guise as a
real king. ‘ Well,” said he, “is the poor man the richer
for his money ?”

“No,” said the rich man, “he is not ;” and then he
told the whole story from beginning to end just as I have
told it.

“Your father was right,” said the king: ‘‘and what he
said was very true—‘Much shall have more and little
shall have less.’ Keep the bag of money for yourself, for
there Heaven means it to stay.”

And maybe there is as much truth as poetry in this
story.

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