The Magic Pot

Farmer Gopi went to his field unhappily that day. Because even

though it was summer, his field was still not yielding any crops.

“My field has not yielded any crops today either! What am I going

to do now? If I can’t deliver crops to the kingdom, I’m going to be

in trouble!” said the farmer.

One day, just as Gopi was about to give up digging on his

barren fields, his shovel hit a hard object.

“Huh! What’s that?” cried Gopi. As he continued digging,

he realized that it was a pot.

“What’s a pot doing in my field? And it’s empty

inside!” Gopi was very unhappy that he had spent so much

effort with no reward. He dropped his hoe in the pot and

lay under a tree to rest.

After a while, when he wanted to take his hoe to return home. He realized that there were 100

more hoes in the pot. “What? How can this happen? I had only one hoe!” Gopi emptied the pot

full of hoe and this time put his shovel in it. But, what is that?

Another 100 shovels immediately appeared in the pot! “Or is it

this pot… a magic pot! Who would have thought?” Gopi was

both amazed and thrilled.

 He brought the pot straight back to his house. He excitedly tried a chicken egg in the pot, and

left it in it. Soon, the pot was overflowing with eggs! “I can’t believe my eyes!” Gopi said

surprised.

Then he put his apple and bread in the pot.

The magic pot gave Gopi hundreds of apples

and bread. “Now, I don’t have to deal with the

barren field! I can sell these multiplied

products in the kingdom market!”

Every day, Gopi took the pot’s multiplied goods to the

kingdom market and tried a new product every day! One

day clothes, the next day vegetables, and another day

beans… whatever he put in the magic pot, it multiplied.

Other sellers were jealous of his success and

complained about Gopi to a soldier of the king.

The next day, the soldier secretly followed Gopi.

Gopi took the magic pot that morning and put a chick in the pot to sell at the kingdom market.

A little later, hundreds of chicks came out of the pot. The soldier

couldn’t believe his eyes. With hundreds of chicks running around

Gopi’s house, one accidently fell into the pot, producing another

hundred chicks. Gopi even had a chick on his head, under his
chair, and in his dinner plate! The soldier immediately went and told the king what he had seen.

The king ordered that Gopi and his magic pot be brought to him immediately.

Gopi went to the king, and the king confiscated the pot from him for the kingdom’s treasure.

Gopi was very upset.

“let me take a closer look at this magic pot that will

enrich my wealth!” the king said. The king

approached the magic pot and bent down into it. “My

king, be careful, please!” cried Gopi. But just then, the

king slipped. He could not keep his balance and fell right into the pot! “Nooooo! The king has

fallen into the cauldron!” shouted Gopi.

In just a few minutes, one hundred more of

the king had formed in the hall! The soldiers

were confused about who to obey. Kings were

fighting each other for the throne, each

claiming to be the real king. “I am the real king!” said one of them. “No, it’s me, the real king!”

claimed the other.

When Gopi realized how dangerous the magic pot could be, he sneaked out of the palace

during the confusion, and took his pot with him. He

went straight to a cliff and threw the magic pot off

the cliff. The pot disintegrated into pieces and

disappeared.
 From that day on, Gopi’s field began to grow crops once again. And Gopi understood that the

land became fertile not by magic, but by labor. And he lived in wealth forever.

The end…