The Gambler and the Fools

The Gambler and The Fools

There once was a gambler named Farah. This man was a trickster who was very good at manipulating people and taking away people's money. Although, he would end up losing it all by gambling it away.

Farah had to move cities every few weeks because his name was on the blacklist after he had taken much of the people's money. Not only was he blacklisted, there were mobs after to kill him. Frightened by this fact, he had to move quickly after taking the money.

Farah had moved along thirty cities since he had started his adventure and came across a small town that seemed to be a great target. The city he landed on was called Dahu. This city was a small town that had hundreds of people who were retired and held a sufficient amount of money. Once Farah figured this fact out, he decided to plan something in order to fill his pockets once again. He knew that he had a small amount of money left and at the rate he was moving, he was going to starve. Once Farah had planned a tactic to use on these townspeople, he dressed as a rich man and moved along to his plan. His first intention was to find the gullible one out of the bunch. If this were to play out correctly, he would strike one person and create a system of trust by acting as if he was actually doubling small sums of their money. Farah got one person after the other and built a reliable connection to a portion of the town. Once he had the whole city's attention, he waited till they all participated and that's when his manipulating began.

Running into some townsmen, he approached them with the question:

"Hello everyone," Farah said, "I am the One and Only Farah! I will make you rich and happy. Come forth so that you may see what I have in store!"

From the small sums of money he doubled for a portion of the town, he knew more people would be interested and would strike his ultimate action on a large crowd.

"How so?" said the Townsman.

The Townsman speaking happened to be the doctor, Jeriah.

Farah explained, "If you give me x amount, I shall double that for you."

"Can you make five dollars into ten then?" said Jeriah.

"Why of course! Just hand me the money and I shall go double this for you. Just wait here and I'll be back with double the amount!" said Farah.

five minutes later...

"Hello, kind sir, I am back with ten dollars!" said Farah.

Jeriah asked, "Where did you go off to? How did you double my money?"

Farah explained, "I believe the important fact here is that I have doubled your money. Any other takers?"

Within thirty seconds, the whole town showed up and started throwing their money at Farah.

The Townspeople all shouted, "ME! ME! ME! OVER HERE!!"

"Very well then, I shall double all this money for you all and be back!" said Farah.

five minutes later...

"I am back with your money. You guys are twice as rich now!" said Farah.

"AGAIN, AGAIN! WE'LL GIVE YOU ALL OUR MONETARY POSSESSIONS!" shouted the Townspeople.

Excited as can be, Farah had to keep his composure.

"Very well then, I shall make one last trip for all you great folks!" said Farah.

"THANK YOU! THANK YOU SO MUCH!" said the Townspeople.

The moment he received all their money, he left and never returned...

The Gambler

Author's Note: I got my ideas of this story from The Cunning Crane and the Crab by W.H.D Rouse. In Rouse's story, he used a Crane and bunches of Fish. The Fish were wanting to be carried over to the "beautiful lake" that the Crane had told them about. All towards the plan, he took the one-eyed Fish there and back to see it all for himself. Once the information had been proven to be true, they began to move one-by-one, although the Crane had eaten them each time he moved one over. Time passes and the Crane ends up eating all the Fish, with none left for himself. Desperate as he was, he ran into a Crab, who seemed as gullible as the fish. Although in the end, he dies when the Crab chomps his neck off. My story is identical to his, because of the whole idea of it, but the characters are different. The idea of plotting something for selfish gain was the theme I got from Dr. Rouse's story.

Bibliography: The Cunning Crane and the Crab by W.H.D Rouse.