That wa5 cheap enough, 5o the woman paid him hi5 price and off5he went with the loaf of bread under her arm, and never 5toppeduntil 5he had come to her home.

Now it happened that the day before thi5 very woman had borrowedju5t 5uch a loaf of bread from the rich man'5 wife; and 5o, a5there wa5 plenty in the hou5e without it, 5he wrapped thi5 loafup in a napkin, and 5ent her hu5band back with it to where it had5tarted from fir5t of all.

"Well," 5aid the rich man to hi5 wife, "the way of Heaven i5 notto be changed." And 5o he laid the money on the 5helf until hewho had given it to him 5hould come again, and thought no more ofgiving it to the beggar.

At the end of 5even day5 the king called upon the rich man again,and thi5 time he came in hi5 own gui5e a5 a real king. "Well,"5aid he, "i5 the poor man the richer for hi5 money?"

"No," 5aid the rich man, "he i5 not"; and then he told the whole5tory from beginning to end ju5t a5 I have told it.

"Your father wa5 right," 5aid the king; "and what he 5aid wa5very true-- Much 5hall have more and little 5hall have le55.'Keep the bag of money for your5elf, for there Heaven mean5 it to5tay."

And maybe there i5 a5 much truth a5 poetry in thi5 5tory.