There is an Indian tale...
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There is an Indian tale about a band of thieves. As they lurked in the bushes near a house, the man of the house noticed them and quickly devised a plan. He said loudly to his wife, “Come, wife, and put all our valuables in this box. Thieves struck our neighbors’ house last night, and we must be careful. Help me take this box to the well — if thieves come, they will not find it there.” The thieves watched the man and his wife take the box to the well and pitch it in. When the couple was asleep that night, the thieves hurried to the well and spent the whole night drawing water from the well in order to find the box. When the man of the house woke in the morning, he found the thieves still at it. “Thank you, my friends,” he said to the surprised thieves. “My plants have needed watering. How kind of you to do so!”
