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The Hidden Treasure Aesop Tale Told By Baba Jamal Koram
Old Brother Zekial An Aesop Fable as told by Baba Jamal Koram From the Book- Aesop: Tales of Aethiop the African Vol. II, by Baba Jamal Koram Old Brother Zekial owned 100 acres of land in South Carolina. With all of this land he was still a greedy and stingy man. When his wife passed, he sold many of his possessions and bought a lump of gold. Now old Brother Zekial had many children and grandchildren that he could have shared his possessions with. But instead, he bought this lump of gold which he buried by a huge oak tree in the yard by his house. One day a man who came to cut the grass peeped around the corner of the house and saw old Brother Zekial dig up his lump of gold. Later that night, the gardener stole the gold from the old man. When old Brother Zekial found his gold was missing, he started weeping and wailing, whooping and hollering. His oldest son came running to see what had happened and his poor father told him about the gold. "Now you need to stop all this carrying on right now," said the son. "You were never gonna do anything with the gold anyway. Why don't you find a rock, paint it gold, and pretend that it is real. It shouldn't make any difference to you." He should have given all of his children something; a letter, a picture, a book, something. Leave your children a legacy; leave your children a good name, leave your children some land.
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