Read the following stories and answer the questions that follow :
Once there was a miser who sold all his possessions and, with the money, bought a great lump of gold. He
dug a deep hole at the edge of the garden, and there he buried his gold. Once a day, thereafter, the miser
went to the garden, dug up his gold, and embraced it lovingly.
One of the miser’s workmen wondered why his master spent so much time in the garden. One day, he hid
behind a tree and soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure.
That night, when the miser was fast asleep, the workman crept into the garden and stole the lump
of gold.
When the miser found that his gold was gone, he tore his hair and cried aloud in his despair. A neighbour
came running to see what was the matter, and the grief-stricken miser told him what had happened.
Then the neighbour said, “Pray stop your weeping. Go and find a stone. Place the stone in the hole and
imagine that it is your lump of gold. The stone will serve your purpose, for you never meant to use the gold
anyway.”
“To a miser, what he has is of no more use than what he has not.”
Choose the most appropriate title for this
story.
A ‘Gold and Stone’
B ‘The Miser and His Gold’
C ‘The Miser and His Neighbour’
D ‘The Miser and His workman’
It can be a and b