Choose a stone with a tree growing near it, and make a cross with your knife on the bark.

That will serve as a guide to you, and you would recognize the stone by it even if you could not find it in any other way." "Thank you, master.

I will go out tomorrow morning and choose my stone, and then when it begins to get dark I will go out and bury my money there.

It would not do to hide it in the daytime, for even were there no one on the road someone upon the hills might catch sight of me and come down afterwards to see what I was disposing of." "Well, I think that that is the best thing that you can do, Paolo.

There is certainly a danger in leaving it in anyone's hands, for when you return to claim it, perhaps some years hence, you might find that he was dead, or the place might be captured and burned down.