One summer afternoon on the
Mississippi River in
America a steamer crowded with passengers
suddenly
struck a submerged rock. In a moment the
deck was a wild confusion. The
lifeboats were
able to take off only one-fourth of all the
passengers. The
rest tore off their clothes, and
swam ashore.
After everyone had
deserted the overturned ship,
a man suddenly appeared on the leaning deck.
He
grabbed a loose piece of wood and then jumped
into the river. But he
sank like a stone.
When his body was recovered, it was found
that
while the other passengers were busy escaping, he
was busy breaking
open and robbing their trunks
and baggage. Many of them were miners
returning
home with their treasure. This thief gathered
their gold, tied
little bags of it around his
waist and within a quarter of an hour he had
won
more gold than most men do in a lifetime.
But it dragged him to
the bottom of the river in
an instant.
موضوع: greed 
الثلاثاء أكتوبر 28, 2008 8:45 pm