Question

Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in
his garden, but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloatover his gains. A robber
who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser
next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his
hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbours came around him, and he told
them how he used to come and visit his gold. 'Did you ever take any of it out?' asked one
of them. 'Nay,' said he, 'lonly came to look at it.' Then come again and look at the hole
said a neighbour; 'it will do you just as much good Wealth unused might as well not
exist.
Questions:
i) Where did the Miser hide his gold?
ii) What did the robberdo?
iii) How did the Miserreactonfinding the loss of his treasure?
iv) Who noticed the Miser's action and what did he do?
v) Write the moral of the story.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.

3.the tidal estuary that Britons call the Wash, rising waters caught his baggage train. The wagons and their contents, including the king's treasure, were lost. More than 800 years later, King John's hoard has not been found.Sep 27, 2017