Fairy Tale - The golden touch 1


A Fairy Tale
The Golden Touch (1)

          There once lived a very rich king whose name was Midas. He had a little daughter of  whom he was very fond. But he was fonder of gold than of anything else in the world. If his little daughter ran to him with her hands full of buttercups and marigolds and dandelions,he would say “Ah,child,if they were only as golden as they look!”
            Once he had been interested in music and books,but now either book nor music made him happy. He was interested only in gold. Finally he could hardly bear to touch anything that was not made of gold.
            He made it his custom, therefore, to spend a large part of each day in a dreary basement room with his bags of golden coins and bars of gold. Oh,king Midas felt that he would be happy indeed if the whole world were his treasure house and were filled with the precious metal.
            One day, while Midas was enjoying his treasure, holding it up to shine in the one narrow sunbeam that shone into his dreary room, a shadow fell over his gold. All at once he saw a man standing in the sunbeam.
            “you are a wealthy man,” said the stranger cheerfully,glancing about the room.
            “I’ve done fairly well. I’m proud of what I have,” Midas answered, “but one lifetime is not long enough. In five thousand years one might become really rich.”
            “What !” exclaimed the stranger. “aren’t you pleased with what you have ? what would satisfy you then ?”
            “I wish,” said King Midas with a sigh, “that everything I touched might turn to gold.”
            “The Golden Touch,”  said the stranger with a broad smile. “and are you sure that would make you happy ?”
            “How could it fail ?” said Midas
            “as you wish,” said the stranger. “tomorrow at sunrise you shall have the golden touch.”
            Midas looked up,surprised at the stranger’s remark. But the strangerhad vanished.


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