TITLE: Honesty Is The Best Policy

Once there lived a poor man farmer who worked very hard to maintain his big family . But he could hardly manage two square meals a day . One day while working in the field, he found a basket. He picked it up and carried it  home . He showed it to his wife. She opened it. Oh! It was full of huge amount of money. The wife was greedy by nature. She advised her husband to use it or at least a part of it for themselves  . But the farmer told his wife that to use it was nothing but great dis honesty. He added that he would first try to find out the person who had lost the basket.

He set out   to find the owner of it. He moved here and there to find him or her . At last the farmer found the owner of the . He was an industrialist of the nearby town. He went to him and gave him the basket .Finding the basket , the rich man became very happy . He gave the farmer a lot of thanks ,but ni reward.

Giving back the basket to its owner , the farmer become happy. Then he came back home. The farmer’s wife looked at him very angrily and rebuked him for his foolishness. But the farmer did not change his motto and stand . He kept on saying , “Honesty Is The Best Policy”. Some month went away . Suddenly one day the industrialist arrived at his house . Both he and his wife got astonished at this . They tried their level best to entertain him. He praised the farmer highly . Then he gave the farmer a handsome cash reward and gave him some plots of land , took leave of them.

The  poor farmer and his wife became very glad at the greatness of the rich man.

Then the farmer  called his wife and said to her ,’Now do you see honesty is the best policy’? The wife felt very ashamed and said ,,’Really , honesty is the best policy”.