THE GOLDSMITH WHO LOST HIS LIFE THROUGH HIS AVARICE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1516, 22 January 1886, Page 3

THE GOLDSMITH WHO LOST HIS LIFE THROUGH HIS AVARICE.

A soldier finds a purse of gold on the highway, and entrusts it to the keeping of a goldsmith (how frequently do goldsmiths figure in these stories —and never to the credit of the craft!) but when he comes to demand it back the other den'es all knowledge of it. The soldier cites him before the Kazi, but he still persists in denying that he had ever received any money from the complainant. The Kazi wae, however, convinced of the soldier's story, so he goes to the house of the goldsmith, and privately causes two of his own attendants to be locked up in a large chest that was in one of the rooms. He then confined the goldsmith and his wife in the same room. During the night the concealed men hear the goldsmith inform his wife where he had hidden the soldier's money; and next morning, when the Kazi came again, and was told by his men what they had heard the goldsmith say to hia wife about the money he caused search to be made, and, finding it, hanged the goldsmith on the spot. Kadis are often represented in Persian stories as being very shrewd and ingenious in convicting the most expert rogues, bub this device for discovering the goldsmith's criminality is certainly one of the cleverest examples, — Tales of a Part jt.