The Clever Boy

Story Outlines: A boy sees a thief coming with a bag full of stolen goods – begins crying – says, his gold chain has fallen into the well – the thief gets down – the boy runs away with the bag – result.

The Clever Boy

One day, a young clever boy named Ramanujan was roaming around the streets. Suddenly, he saw a thief coming with a bag full of stolen goods. He was too weak to catch them. So he made a plan. He started crying loudly saying, “Please someone help me. My gold chain has fallen down into the well”. The thief thought that he can easily have that gold chain too. So he got down into the well. Just then, the boy removed the rope from the well and ran away with the bag towards the police station. Police came and got the thief out of the well. Everyone praised the boy’s presence of mind.

Moral: What can not be done with might can be done with intelligence.