The richest gold and silver mine in Nevada was sold
by the owner for $42, 1 , where he
thought he could get rich. Professor Agassiz once told the harvard students of a
farmer who owned a farm of hundreds of acres of unprofitable woods and rocks,
2 . He decided to go into the coal-oil
business; he studied coal measures and coal-oil deposits,
3 . He sold his farm for $ 200, and engaged in his new
business two hundred miles away. 4 , the man who bought his farm discovered upon it a great flood of
coaloil, 5 . Hundreds
of years ago there lived near the shore of the river Indus a Persian by the name
of Ali Hafed. He lived in a cottage on the river bank,
6 . He had a wife and children, an extensive farm, fields
of grain, gardens of flowers, orchards of fruit, and miles of forest. He had
plenty of money and everything that heart could wish. He was contented and
happy. One evening a priest of Buddha visited him, and, sitting before the fire,
explained to him how the world was made, 7 . A. Only a short time after B. to get
money to pay his passage to other mines C. and how the first
beams of sunlight condensed on the earth’s surface into diamonds
D. which the farmer had previously ignorantly tried to drain
off E. from which he could get a grand view of the beautiful
country stretching away to the sea F. and concluded to sell out
and get into a more profitable business G. and experimented for
a long time