The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses by Henry Drummond
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The robber laughed and wheeled around his horse and went away back. He
would not believe the boy. Presently another robber came and he said: "Boy, what have you got?" "Forty golden dinars sewed up in my coat." The robber said: "The boy is a fool," and wheeled his horse and rode away back. By and by the robber captain came and he said: "Boy, what have you got?" "I have forty golden dinars sewed up in my coat." The robber dismounted, and put his hand over the boy's breast, felt something round, counted one, two, three, four, five, till he counted out the forty golden coins. He looked the boy in the face and said: "Why did you tell me that? The boy said: "Because of God and my mother." The robber leaned on his spear and thought and said: "Wait a moment." |
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