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• Title: The Evergrowing Hoard
• Category: Uncategorized
• Riddle: A man is in a financially ruining situation. Neither his nor his wife"s jobs combined will earn money fast enough. He knows there is only one way out: To consult an elderly dragon living in a cave near his home. "My good sir" the dragon says when the man asks for some of my gold "you are welcome to my hoard whenever you please. Just leave me with enough to sleep upon for my wings and old and weary and I cannot hunt gold as well as I could many years ago." "Thank you kind beast" the man says takes what he needs from the creature"s hoard and returns to his home. The next day the man"s bills return and he sees that what he took from the dragon"s hoard was not enough to satisfy those he had to pay. He again returns to the animal"s cave who again agrees to lend him gold. But the next day the same happens again. And again. This continues for many years. The dragon always seems to have enough to provide the man with cash but even so his debts are never paid off. His debts are not limitless - he should be able to pay it all off but he never is able to. Why is this so?
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