There once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn.
It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After
searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up and enlisted
the help of a group of children playing outside the barn.
He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded.
Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around
the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer
was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and
asked to be given another chance.
The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks
sincere enough.”
So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little
boy came out with the watch in his hand! The farmer was both happy and surprised
and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.
The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the
silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that
direction.”
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