I could sooner stop breathing." Jesus told the old man a little story: "Some children by the roadside attacked a strange boy for the sake of some broken potsherds which they were collecting.

But when they had got a great heap together the roadman came along, and with his spade threw the pieces into the gutter.

The children raised a great cry.

But the man saw that there was blood on some of the fragments, and asked: 'Where did you get these from ?' Whereupon the children grew pale with terror, and the man took them off to the magistrate." The old man understood.

He went away and compensated all who had come to harm through him, and then on his way home he started once more to amass treasure! The next day Jesus and His followers reached another village.