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I guess most of you must be familiar with the story - Jewels under the Saddle. Still why am I blogging about it is, it's for those who are going to read it for the first time like me. But what is the purpose of sharing a story here which is only read for little children? It has two precious jewels. To know what are they let us read the story!

Jewels Under The Saddle :

 There lived a camel seller and a merchant. Both went to the market. The camel seller wanted to sell his camel while the merchant went to the market to buy something good to add up his stocks. The merchant came across this came seller and finds out that the camel he has brought to the market is of very good specimen. So he wishes to buy this camel. Both the merchant and the camel seller starts up with the dealing where both of them were skilled negotiators. The camel seller sold his camel at a good price and parted from his camel and went home with satisfaction. Whereas the merchant walks towards his home happily by the thought of good bargain. As he reached home another camel was added up to the livestocks of the merchant.
The saddle on the camel was too heavy to be lifted so the merchant calls out for his servant to help him take out the saddle. As the saddle was being taken, the servant finds a beautiful small velvet pouch beneath the saddle. As soon as he noticed the pouch, he opens it up to see what's in there. The moment he opens up, he discoveres precious beautiful jewels in the pouch. 
He shouts to his master ," Master uou bought a camel but see what came freeeee.... along with the camel..!!"
    The merchant was surprised to see the jewels beneath the saddle. The jewels in the pouch were of high quality sparkling and twinkling in the sunlight. Meanwhile the merchant says "I bought the camel and not the jewels , so I must return them back immediately." The servant insist the master to keep the jewels for himself saying no one is watching. The Merchant does not listen to the servant and goes back to the camel seller. He hands over the velvet pouch to the camel seller. Seeing the pouch the camel seller flies on Cloudnine. He say to the merchant that he had forgotten about the pouch which he hide under the saddle. And the camel seller thanks the merchant for the pouch. The camel seller asks the merchant to keep two of the jewels as a reward. But the merchant denies to accept the reward. The camel seller keeps on insisting so the merchant says smiling sheepishly that he already kept two of the jewels on his way back to return the pouch. The camel seller immediately checks the number of jewels he kept in the pouch and seems confused as all the jewels are found in the pouch. He ask the merchant what did he keep as all the jewels are found in the pouch "what were the two jewels that you kept?"

“The two most precious”, said the merchant.

“ MY INTEGRITY & SELF-RESPECT.”

How do you explain integrity?

"The ability to do the right thing or choosing to do the right thing.. when you could get away with doing the wrong thing!"  - Roger Jenkins

If it touches you the way it did me, please do share, a story shared lives on forever.

-Redbird✒