The Ploughman and His Children

A ploughman, about to end his life, wanted his children to gain experience in farming. He called them to him and said, "My children, I am about to leave this world; but you, look for what I have hidden in my vineyard, and you will find everything." The children, imagining he had buried a treasure in some corner, dug deeply over the whole soil of the vineyard after their father's death. Of treasure they found none; but the vineyard, well turned over, yielded its fruit a hundredfold.