The Lucky Charm

A young man has fallen into bad company. He has become involved with a crowd of people who do no work, lie around all day, have a very negative attitude to all forms of achievement and like nothing better than to pull others into their misery and bring them down to their level.

His sister is very worried and seeks the advice of a wise magician, who gives her a lucky charm that her brother should wear, fashioned out of an unusual yellowish green metal that has a feeling of spring and great lightness about it. She visits her brother and gives this charm to him as a gift of her love.

He is most touched by her kindness and wears the charm proudly, and when the bad crowd makes fun of his lucky charm, his eyes are opened and he sees them for what they are - he leaves, never to return there.