Reunion (Final Part)

 

While drinking some water from the well, his stones got dropped mistakenly into the well. It caused a great noise.

The people of that place came running to him and said, “What happened? Where did that noise come from?”

Hans replied after quenching his thirst, “I’m so sorry. My stones got dropped mistakenly into the well.”

Then that man and that woman, whom Hans had seen standing a few yards away, also came running to the well.

They looked at Hans as if with a surprise.

Then the woman came to him and asked, “Are you a newcomer to this place?”

Hans then replied after a short pause, “Yes, I have come here to look for my parents.”

Then the man said, “Your parents!”

Hans nodded his head and said, “I lost them seven years ago in a fairground.”

Then the woman suddenly burst into tears.

With tears in eyes, the man asked, “What’s your name, boy?”

“I am Hans.”

Then they drew Hans close to them and said, “Hans! Hans!”

Everything, in the wink of an eye, became crystal clear right then to Hans. He came to know that none but they were his parents.

He went back home with them with extreme happiness.

                                                [Retold the story of Hans in Luck]

 

Moral: All is well that ends well. / Happiness, even in the midst of troubles, gifts us energy and a free spirit.