Prudence and Wealth

There lived an old man in a small town.
He was very rich and he had earned all his wealth by
hard work and efforts.

He fell sick one time and wanted to write his will before his death.

He had two sons Pat and Jeff to inherit the wealth.
But the old man did not want to divide the money among the two equally.
He wanted to give the wealth to the most intelligent and the mostcareful one who thinks
twice before utilizing the money for anything.

He didn't want his sons to become lazy and not work after acquiring
all the wealth.

He had plan to find out which one of his sons,deserve all the money.

So he called Pat, the oldet of his sons and Jeff his little brother
to his bed and said" Dear sons,you both know that I am sick and I don't have
much time left in this world.But I want to give all my wealth to just one of you
who would be careful with money and would take very good care of it.
I found the best way to find out who deserves the wealth."

Pat and Jeff agreed to their father and said " Father,please go ahead and let us know
what we have to do to prove to you that we can handle the wealth carefully."

Their father gve each of them 100 $ and directed them to two different rooms
and said "Sons,this 100 $ is to test you. You both have to make use of this money
and fill the rooms."

"I don't care what you do but you just have to fill the room with whatever you buy
for the money."

Pat and Jeff were confused,but agreed to their father's words and left with the money.

Pat went around looking for something that would fill the room.
He went to a furniture store,marketplace but he could not find anything
that would fill the room like his father had mentioned.

Jeff sat at home and thought deeply.

Nextday both the sons walked to father's bed and gave him the room keys.

Father walked to Pat's room slowly and opened it. The room was filled with straw.
He could not even enter the room. It did not have even an inch of space.
Pat had really filled the room.

Father asked "Well son, you have indeed filled the room. Do you have any money left?".

Pat looked at him proudly and said "I do Dad." and gave him two dollars.

He had used 98$ for the straw.

It was Jeff's turn now.
Father opened the door.To his surprise there was nothing in the room.
Father walked inside and saw a small lamp that was switched on in one corner
of the room.

Jeff looked at his father and said"Dad I filled the room with light."
He gave 98% back and said "I just used two dollars for the small lamp and saved 98 $."

Father was very happy with what Jeff did.
Eventhough he could have used all the money his father gave him,
Jeff was prudent enough to think and use just 2 $ and act smart by filling the room
with light.

Father gave Jeff all the wealth for his forethought abd smartness.