Bob was a hairy man. Hair covered him from head
to toe, and it grew to around seven inches in some places. Many people didn’t
like him because, well, he stunk (literally), and the hair made him look real
ugly. He wanted to be respected, even if he did have a lot of hair and he did
stink. One day, he saw an article in the news saying that lots and lots of gold
had been found in nearby Boston just yesterday. Here’s my chance! he thought.
The next day, he was in
Boston at the crack of dawn. He found a job in the “You’ll Get Rich Gold Mine”.
After a tiring morning of paperwork and forms, Bob finally sat down for lunch.
After lunch, he hurried to the mountain mine and started chipping away at the
rock. He chipped for one hour… two hours… three hours… and even four hours
straight without even finding so much as a speck of gold. After thirty more minutes
of hammering down the pickax, he was about to give up when he found a tiny bit
of yellow on the wall next to him.
Could it be?
Bob asked himself. He picked at it a bit more, exposing more yellow. He took a
heavy shovel and started scraping away the dirt on this large mineral. After
fifteen more minutes, about half the gold was exposed. He shoveled away more,
and more yellow was exposed, until the huge hunk of gold was excavated. He
rolled it out of the mountain tunnel, and into the “Did You Find Gold?” office.
There, everybody just stared at the huge hunk of gold. They offered to buy it
for a few million dollars, and from then on, Bob lived a happy life with his riches.
He was finally a respected man.
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