The king used to give food and money every day to two beggars.
On receiving the alms one of them, used to say, “God provides.” The other beggar, would say, “Our king provides.” This annoyed the king who thought, ‘It is I who am feeding him and he keeps saying,–God provides, God provides.’ The next day he asked the beggars to go by a little-used road instead of their usual one. But as the beggar walked down the road he wondered why the king had sent him that way. ‘Perhaps he wants me to enjoy the privacy of this road,’ he thought. And he closed his eyes. As a result he missed seeing the purse. It was spotted and picked up by the other beggar who was coming behind him. The next day the king asked the beggars whether they had found anything on the road he had sent them by and he looked meaningfully at the younger man. But the beggar shook his head. “It was a beautiful road,” he said. “But I did not find anything on it.” “But I did,” said the other man, “I found a purse of gold. God provides.”
