ittle Brown Bag

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The Baron’s chief advisor, Professor Hamblin, told the Baron about an interesting situation.

It seemed that William Tyler, an elderly gentleman in Lilliland who lived alone except for his pet dog, Henry, was suddenly taken ill. He was rushed to the hospital and was recuperating slowly when the hospital gave him a bill for certain hospital services. He said that the money was available in his home in a small brown paper bag that he kept in the kitchen sink. He used the kitchen table as his desk for his important work of writing books on growing plants.

While Mr. Tyler was ill in the hospital, he asked a friend to have a cleaning lady take care of the house and could he please feed Henry the dog himself. The cleaning woman was new and unfamiliar with Mr. Tyler’s lifestyle of not trusting banks. It is understandable how she would mistakenly think his little brown bag was filled with garbage and throw it out and replace it with a new brown garbage bag. Unfortunately, all the money that Mr. Tyler had was in the little brown bag and not in a bank, as it should have been.

When Mr. Tyler was informed about the missing little brown bag, the police were called.

Mr. Tyler thought that without the money from his little brown bag, he would be unable to pay his hospital bill and all the other bills that needed to be paid.

The police were notified about the little brown bag and, as luck would have it, it was spotted at the Lilliland garbage dump just about to be burned with all the other trash.

The bag was returned to its owner and a reward was given to the finder. Also, fortunately, much of the money was in securities that could not have been cashed by anyone except Mr. Tyler. Still, it contained enough cash that was readily available for anyone who found the little brown bag.

Mr. Tyler was very grateful. He paid his hospital bill and went home a healthier and wiser man. He took the little brown bag to the bank and deposited the money in an account and the rest in a safety deposit box for safekeeping.

But he still kept the little brown bag with some a small amount of money for grocery shopping and dog food for Henry.