THE MAGIC POT-converted

THE MAGIC POT

Once upon a time, a poor farmer
was ploughing his farm when he hit
something hard. It was a large
metal pot.

What’s this? A metal pot?
I wonder if there is
something more valuable u
underneath,” said the
farmer.

In the hope that he could find
something more valuable, the
farmer dug deeper and wider. Tired
after hours of searching, he
decided to rest.

He left his spade in the pot and
lay down under tree. A while later,
when he got up and went back to
the pot, he was surprised. “How is
this possible? The pot is full of
hundreds of spades. I only left with
one in it, said the farmer.”

“Looks like it is a magical pot. Let
me see what will happen if I put a
mango in it?” Just like what the
farmer had thought, the one mango
turned into hundreds of mangoes.

“This is truly a magical pot. I will
take it home and use it to tide over
our troubles, said the farmer.”

The farmer went home and hid it in
a safe place. He then went to the
market and sold the mangoes.
He earned a handsome sum for
them.

On the way back, he bought some
grains. He went home and put each
one of them in the pot one by one.

Soon he had enough grains to last
his family for the rest of the year.

The farmer called his wife and told
her everything that had happened.

“ This is a blessing. We should use it
wisely to become rich but also keep
it safely hidden, said his wife”.

The farmer agreed with his wife.

Over the year, he started putting
things in the pot; fruits, vegetables,
textiles.

And in some years, he turned
around his family’s fortune.

Though they had been very
secretive and very careful about
their magic pot, people started
noticing how they had become rich.

Soon, their secret was out. It even
reached the kings ears.

“Such a powerful magic pot should
be a part of king’s treasury. The
farmer has no rights to keep it.
Only I have the right to own the
pot,” said the king.

The king ordered the soldiers to
bring the pot to the palace.

The soldiers stormed into the
farmer’s home and confiscated the
pot. They brought it to the king.

“ Let me see what’s inside the pot
that makes it so magical. Once I
find what it is, I will become a
hundred times more powerful,” said
the king.

The king peered over the pot and
looked into it. As he did, he lost his
balance and fell into the pot. As he
fell, he hit his head on the edge of
the pot and became unconscious.
When he woke up, he saw that
there were hundreds of kings like
him.

They all fought each other to get to
the throne and died. Soon the news
the farmer and his wife.

“Should we get the pot back now?”
asked his wife.

The farmer said, “the king was
foolish and his curiosity killed him
but it is not safe to keep the pot
anymore. We have enough money
and riches to take care of us and
our many next generations.
Let us leave the pot within the
king’s treasury.

THE END