There was once a man and his boy. The boy idolised everything the man did, and the man was very proud of his boy. The man named his boy "Karl". It's not important what the man's name was, to the boy he was "Father". The boy watched the man in everything he did, and was astounded by it. What a great man, he thought, that can make so much money and be so successful! What an incredible man was he.
One day the man and the boy were walking along a garden path. The boy stopped and looked on the ground, for there was something shiny that had caught his eye. He leaned down to look at it more closely, and it turned out it was a penny.
"Look, Father, a penny!" said the boy, as he looked up at the man. The man looked down upon the boy, with a gentle smile on his face, and said,
"Why don't you pick it up?"
The boy smiled a little more, as if it were possible, and turned down to pick up the penny. As he picked it up, he saw a little bug had made its home underneath the penny. It looked to the boy like a beetle of some sort. Without removing the smile from his face, he gently placed the penny back where he got it from, on top of the beetle.
The man observed this, and asked the boy,
"Why did you put the penny back down? Don't you want it?"
The boy, still smiling, looked to the man and said,
"Yes, I still want it; but that beetle needs it".
