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    Makato was a poor orphan boy who worked hard doing various jobs to support himself. One day while working, he found a cowrie shell dropped by the king, which was used as currency. With the single cowrie shell, he was able to buy some lettuce seeds from a market stall. He carefully grew the seeds and offered the lettuce to the king, impressing him with his intelligence and industry. The king offered Makato a position at the royal palace, where he rose to become a trusted advisor and eventually the ruler of a prosperous kingdom, having come a long way from his origins as a poor orphan.

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    Makato was a poor orphan boy who worked hard doing various jobs to support himself. One day while working, he found a cowrie shell dropped by the king, which was used as currency. With the single cowrie shell, he was able to buy some lettuce seeds from a market stall. He carefully grew the seeds and offered the lettuce to the king, impressing him with his intelligence and industry. The king offered Makato a position at the royal palace, where he rose to become a trusted advisor and eventually the ruler of a prosperous kingdom, having come a long way from his origins as a poor orphan.

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    Makato was a poor orphan boy who worked hard doing various jobs to support himself. One day while working, he found a cowrie shell dropped by the king, which was used as currency. With the single cowrie shell, he was able to buy some lettuce seeds from a market stall. He carefully grew the seeds and offered the lettuce to the king, impressing him with his intelligence and industry. The king offered Makato a position at the royal palace, where he rose to become a trusted advisor and eventually the ruler of a prosperous kingdom, having come a long way from his origins as a poor orphan.

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    Makato was a poor orphan boy who worked hard doing various jobs to support himself. One day while working, he found a cowrie shell dropped by the king, which was used as currency. With the single cowrie shell, he was able to buy some lettuce seeds from a market stall. He carefully grew the seeds and offered the lettuce to the king, impressing him with his intelligence and industry. The king offered Makato a position at the royal palace, where he rose to become a trusted advisor and eventually the ruler of a prosperous kingdom, having come a long way from his origins as a poor orphan.

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    Makato and the Cowrie Shell – Thailand "Lady, if I dip my finger into this pile of seeds, can I

    (Retold and translated by Supannee Khanchanathiti) take those that stick to my finger for one cowrie?", he
    asked. "Well why not", replied the sales lady, amused by
    Once upon a time there was a boy named Makato. He was his suggestion. Makato carefully scraped the seeds from
    an orphan, and had no friends or family to take care of him. his finger and planted them, watering the tiny sprouts daily,
    Because he had to make his own living he did all kinds of until the garden was covered in fresh, green lettuce. Proud
    odd jobs: chopping wood, feeding pigs, clearing and as he was, he offered to king his first produce.
    cleaning. He didn't mind to work hard, and despite his
    small wages he was satisfied with his life. "Where did you get these, my boy?" the king asked
    surprised, and Makato told him the story. The king was
    He was only 4 years old when his mother passed impressed by so much intelligence and industry that he
    away, but he remembered some stories she had told about offered him a fixed position at the palace.
    the kind-hearted king of Sukhotai. Ever since he was small
    he wanted to meet this king. Since Makato was a poor As the years passed Makato grew tall and
    orphan, he cannot change the fact that he's longing for a handsome. He mastered every grace and served the king
    family no matter how happy he is. He left his village and well. He was so loyal that the king trusted him absolutely.
    set out into the wide world. He walked along cheerfully, He was promoted to higher and higher positions until he
    enjoying new insights and talking to the people he met on was given the title of Khun Wang, which meant that he was
    the way. After a month's journey, he reached a village on the most important person in the king’s court.
    the boundary of the Kingdom of Sukhotai. Fortunately he
    met an old woman who helped her. He was happily married to a beautiful young
    daughter of the king. After that, the king made him the ruler
    One day, when helping a friend to find food for elephants, of Mon. So, Makato, who had once been a poor orphan,
    he found so many branches that the friend offered him a became the king of a prosperous kingdom.
    job to become the assistant of the King's mahout. He
    http://folkloreformanagers.blogspot.com//2010/08/makato-and-
    worked hard cleaning elephants sheds and finding food.
    cowrie-shell-thailand.html
    One fine morning Makato's patience and hard work got
    rewarded: he was to accompany the King's elephant and a
    parade. As the king mounted the beast, in his splendid,
    shiny costume, he dropped a tiny cowrie shell. Makato
    picked it up and held it out to the king. who told him to keep
    it.

    At the time the people of Sukhotai used cowrie shells


    as money, and although one little cowrie had little value, he
    wanted to use it wisely. He went to the market to buy
    seeds, yet quickly realized he could not even buy the
    smallest bag of seeds, while he noticed a lettuce seed stall.

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