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NCE upon a time there was a Miser 

 who used to hide his gold at the 

 foot of a tree in his garden ; but 

 every week he used to go and dig 

 it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who 

 had noticed this, went and dug up the gold 

 and decamped with it. When the Miser next 

 came to gloat over his treasures, he found 

 nothing but the empty hole. He tore his 

 hair, and raised such an outcry that all the 

 neighbours came around him, and he told 

 them how he used to come and visit his 



