ABSTRACT
A man who had been to see the prince of Sung and had been presented with ten chariots, was putting on airs in the presence of Chuang TzG.
'At Ho-Shang', said the latter, 'there was a poor man who supported his family by plaiting rushes. One day his son dived into the river and got a pearl worth a thousand ounces of silver. The father bade him fetch a stone and smash it to pieces, explaining that he could only have got such a pearl very deep down from under the nolse of the dragon, which must have been asleep. And he said he was afraid that when the dragon waked, the boy would have a poor chance.
