Once, an old farmer lived with his three sons. Before dying, he called his sons and distributed his possessions among them. The first son got a cow, the second got a horse and the third son got a cock. The elder two mocked the third one on his inheritance. The third son left home and travelled to places far and wide. One day, he reached a kingdom where everybody was asleep. He was curious to know what had happened. That night he slept in a hut. The next day, as the sun rose, his cock crowed. The cock’s crowing woke everybody up in the kingdom. The king called the third son to his palace and said, “Dear son, a wizard had put a sleep spell on my kingdom. Your cock’s crowing broke the spell.” The king gave the third son a big fortune as a gift. He became the richest of the three.
The Third Son
