 A man lived with his wife and son in a wretched hovel; he was secretly rich, but so great a miser that he could not spend the money.One day, however, he spent too little on food and died.The man appeared to his son in a dream and said that his mother would die soon; half the wealth, being ill-gotten, was to be given to the poor, and he should throw the other half into the sea, and catch whatever swam by.