The tales of Thought contain the following tales: The domestic lare, Tale of love, The jar of gold, The princess of the waters, The good of others, The hat which makes invisible, The tale of the rich man, The king and the barber, The man and the devil, The shirt adorned with diamonds, Aslanzate and Zanpolate, The girl in the chest, Brother lamb, Fear, Laughs well who laughs last, Talou Orlan, Topal, The revealing kite, The Hunter Ahmad, The Dervish and the Daughters, The King's Daughter of China, Pomegranate, Nerso
There was a poor man who worked for the peasants. Once a year he was entitled to a sack of wheat and a pair of clogs. He worked so hard that he fell ill and had to take a year off.
Un jour, un riche propriétaire l’appelle et lui dit :
» Va à la montagne, là-haut où paissent mes chevaux, rassemble-les, compte-les, soigne-les, je te donnerai un sac de blé et une paire de sabots. «
Le valet va à la montagne, il voit là un homme qui avait rassemblé les chevaux, les avait étrillés, et qui était assis tranquillement. L’homme lui demande :
" Qui es-tu ? «
– » Je suis un pauvre homme, un valet de ferme ; l’agha m’a envoyé rassembler ses chevaux, les compter, les étriller et les protéger. «
» Ah ! said the man, tu peux te reposer, je t’ai épargné tout ce travail. «
» Bon, mais toi, qui es-tu ? » dit le valet.
" Moi, je suis le lare domestique de celui qui t’a envoyé. «
" Et mon lare à moi, où est-il ? » dit le valet.
" Ton lare est de l’autre côté de la montagne, assis au pied d’un rocher. «
Le pauvre homme s’en va. Il arrive jusqu’au rocher, il cherche, il appelle ; il trouve enfin son lare domestique, il se jette à ses pieds, il le supplie d’avoir pitié de lui, de lui permettre de rentrer chez lui, délivré de sa pauvreté.
" Go, said the lare, I follow you, I will help you.
Voici trois osselets, je te les donne. Avec ces osselets, tu deviendras riche et tu vivras longtemps «
The valet returns to the village. Along the way, he meets three kids arguing over a shiny object. They fight, bicker. The valet gives them each a knucklebone, calms them down, takes the shining stone, goes home, puts the stone on the window and goes to bed.
Imagine that stone was a ruby. It shone in the night, it lit up everything around, but the man didn't know anything about it.
One day, a merchant comes by, he offers him a hundred pieces of gold. He takes the ruby, goes to town and resells it for four hundred pieces of gold. Then he comes back to buy another one. When he learns that the valet had it for three bones and sold it to him for a hundred gold pieces, he immediately collapses, he drops dead.
The valet inherits his fortune.
The poor man's servant had followed him.
