{"collection":"Hinduism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_ift_ift22_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_ift_ift22_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_ift_ift22_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/ift/ift22.htm","summary":"HERE was once a farmer who suffered much at the hands of a money-lender. Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich. At the last, when he hadn't a farthing left, the farmer went to the money-lender's house, and said, \"You can't squeeze water from a stone, and as you have nothing to get by me now, you might tell me the secret of becoming rich.\"\n\"My friend,\" returned the money-lender, piously, \"riches come from Ram--ask him.\"\n\"Thank you, I will!\" replied the simple\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Indian Fairy Tales: The Farmer and the Money-Lender","tradition":"Hinduism","translated_text":null,"word_count":832}