The Magic box

    

The Magic box

            Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who live with his wife. One day, he dug up his field and found a big box. He took it homw with him and showed it to his wife. His wife cleaned the box and kept it in theirs house.

            One sunny morning his wife dropped an apple into it. Suddenly, the box began fill up with apple. No matter how many the apples were taken out, more apples took their place. So, the farmer and his wife decide to sell the apples and in short time they were able to live quite comportably.

            Once day, the farmer dropped a gold coin in to box. At once, apples disappeared and the box began to fill it self with coins. Every day, the farmer and his wife collected hundreds of gold coins from the box. Soon, they became very rich.

            Having heard that his son had gone rice, the farmer’s grandfather visited the couple. He was not very strong and he could not go out to work any more. So, the farmer asked the old man to help him take the moneyout of hte box. When his grandfather told his son that  he was tired and wanted a rest, the farmer shouted at him, “Why are you so lazy? Why can’t you work harder?”

            The old man did say anything, and continued to work until he fell into the box and suddenly died. At once, the money disappeared and the box began to fill up with dead grandfahters.

            The Farmer had to pull them out and burry them. To do this, he had to spend all the money he had collected. When he had used up all the money, the box broke and the farmer was just as poor as he was before.