Once upon a time there lived a
poor fisherman. His name was John Michaels and he was very hard working. He
lived alone in his house. One day, his school friend came to his village. The
friend said to him, “Hey, John, how are you?
Do you recognize me? ”. John said after thinking for a while, “Sorry,
but I am unable to recognize you”. His friend said, “I knew that you will fail
to do so as you did not remember things in school time also”. When John heard
this he quickly said, “Oh, are you my classmate Alex?” His friend said, “Yes,
dear”.
John welcomed Alex to his
house and gave him some food to eat which he had stored for himself. After some
hours, Alex went to the inn in the village. That night John could not have a
proper sleep, so he took his fishing rod and went for fishing before the usual
timing of waking up. On his way, he noticed Alex and talked to him for a while.
Alex lastly said, “What would happen if I will die?” John replied, “Don’t say
such things”. John went on his way. After two hours of fishing he came back to
his house. When he was feeling bored he went to inn to meet Alex. There he came
to know that his school friend Alex was no more. A person said that he died
last night because of over-drinking.
When John thought of Alex who
talked to him early morning, he was very surprised that Alex was dead before he
left for fishing. He thought how he talked to Alex that time. “Was he someone
else?” he thought. “Was it the soul of Alex”? He got scared thinking such
thoughts. When the night came, he was about to sleep. Suddenly an unknown voice
came to his ears. After a while, he recognized the voice which was of Alex. He
noticed that the sound was coming from the outside of his home he took a
lantern with him and went behind a tree. There he saw that full tree was
covered with blood.
After walking some steps he
was an arrow sign on the other tree which was pointing towards the ground. He
thought that his friend wanted to tell him something. So, he dug the ground
there and found there was a big bag of gold coins. He kept that with him and
gradually he became a rich person of the village. Every day he used to visit
the funeral of Alex.
John became rich with the gift
of his friend. May everybody get such friends.
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