folly has emptied the platter, wisdom is called in to pick the
bones.

"Tell me," said the young man to the Talisman of Solomon, "what
shall I do, now that everything is gone?"

"Go," said the Talisman of Solomon, "and work as thy father has
worked before thee. Advise with me and become prosperous and
contended, but do not go dig under the cherry-tree in the
garden."

"Why should I not dig under the cherry-tree in the garden?" says
the young man; "I will see what is there, at any rate."

So he straightway took a spade and went out into the garden,
where the Talisman had told him not to go. He dug and dug under
the cherry-tree, and by-and-by his spade struck something hard.
It was a vessel of brass, and it was full of silver money. Upon
the lid of the vessel were these words, engraved in the
handwriting of the old man who had died:

"My son, this vessel full of silver has been brought from the
treasure-house of the ancient kings of Egypt. Take this, then,
that thou findest; advise with the talisman; be wise and
prosper."

"And they call that the Talisman of Wisdom," said the young man.
"If I had listened to it I never would have found this treasure."

The next day he began to spend the money he had found, and his