The Poor Sister and the Wealthy
Once upon a time, there were two sisters who lived on the edge of a great wood. One sister lived in a house that was built of red bricks and her house was filled with fine things money can buy. The other sister lived just down the lane, on the far side of a meadow, beside a brook, in a house made of logs, mud and thatch. Her house was filled with "gifts." One of the sisters was wealthy and the other was poor. One fine morning, the sister who lived in the red brick house noticed a tear in the corner of her best tablecloth. She decided it would be wise to repair it quickly, before the cloth deteriorated further. "A stitch in time saves nine, after all," she thought to herself, so off she hurried to market to purchase a spool of golden thread with which to mend it. Soon, she was back home and ready to mend her tablecloth, but as she came to it, she saw that the golden thread she had purchased wasn't quite right to match what had been used to make the cloth in ...