The four sons and the treasure

         The four sons and the treasure

Once upon a time a father had four sons. As these four sons grew up, they became different 

people. The elder son became a sailor. The second son became an archer. The third son 

became a thief. The fourth son became a carpenter. 

After some time passed, the father heard about a treasure. Later he looked into this. He 

came to known that the treasure was on an island surrounded by the sea and that it was 

inhabited by hawks and that the hawks guarded the treasure. Later he told all these 

information to his four sons. The four of them discussed about this and took a boat the next 

morning to get the treasure. 

The son, who was engaged in navigation took them to the island by boat. The son, who was 

engaged in theft, stole the treasure from the place where hawks lived. Then they took the 

treasure and left for home by boat. Then the hawks started attacking them when they

realized that there was no treasure. 

The son, who is an archer, killed the hawks with a bow. The big hawks that was killed fell 

into the boat and damaged it, causing the boat to sink.The son, who is working in carpentry 

repaired the damaged parts of the boat so that did not sink. Thus they all reached home 

without any trouble. Then the treasure was shared equally among all and they lived happily

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