a very mean man once sold all his goods and property and melted the money he received for it into one solid mass of gold. He took the gold to a wood,where he buried it in the ground He visited his hoard night and morning to gloat over it.
one night a robber spied on him and when the miser had gone the villain dug up the treasure and went off with it.
next day the miser missed it and went nearly out of his mind at the loss of his gold. 'why are you making such a noise?' said a neighbour. 'you might as well have a stone in the ground instead of your gold, for it was no use to you when you had it?