Did it really? asked Skinflint eagerly.

Bigmouth replied, Theres an old proverb which says, The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If you dont believe me, allow me to arrange a demonstration.

He asked Skinflint to set up a burner and light some incense. Meanwhile, he himself held a plate below the horses behind. He secretly pulled out the wad of cotton and the tiny silver ingots fell jingling onto the plate. On seeing the horse perform like this, Skinflint asked avidly, How much does he produce a day?

Three or four taels a day for us less lucky folk, replied Bigmouth. But the old man in my dream said that if he meets a really lucky person he produces thirty or forty.

Skinflint thought to himself, I must be one of those. Supposing I get the horse, he is bound to produce at least twenty taels a day. That means six hundred taels a month and seven thousand two hundred taels a year.

The longer his sums became, the fonder he grew of the horse. He decided that he must buy him, and talked it over with Bigmouth.

At first Bigmouth pretended to be unwilling. Skinflint tried again and again to persuade him and promised to pay any price he asked. In the end Bigmouth sighed and said, Oh well, so be it. My luck is evidently worse than yours. Ill sell. But I dont want silver or gold, just give me thirty bushels of grain.

Skinflint considered the price very cheap and readily agreed. They made the exchange then and there.

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