What follows is a transcription of a story that's in Shah's chapter : "Teaching Stories" . My first thought was to modernize it to make it more palatable but further consideration rejected that notion. I WILL, however, make comment in the Purport .
THE SHEEP AND THE PURSE
A man was walking along a road one day, followed by his sheep . A thief went after him, cut the rope, and took it away . When he realized what had happened, the man ran all over the place looking for his animal . Presently he came to a well, where he saw a man apparently in despair . Although the man did not know it, he was the very same thief . He asked him what he was doing . The thief said, "I have dropped a purse into the well . It contains five hundred silver coins . If you jump in and get it back for me, I will give you one hundred silver pieces ."
The man thought : 'When one door shuts, a hundred may open . This chance is worth ten times the sheep which I have lost .'
He stripped himself and plunged into the well .
And the thief carried off his clothes .
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