One summer Phooey spent a month on his Grandfather’s farm. His Grandfather was going to put in a fish pond and Phooey agreed to help him dig. So Grandfather and Phooey were both out there digging. They had been digging for almost a week and were almost done. They were talking about the fish Grandfather was going to put in the pond. Phooey stepped on his shovel and hit something metal.

Phooey said “Grandpa I hit something metal”.

Grandpa said “dig it out lets see what it is”.

So Phooey dug a little more and said “It looks like e an old tin can”.

Phooey dug a little more and pulled the can out. He took the top off the can. When he did he had such a shocked look on his face Grandpa said ” What is it Phooey”

Phooey said “a-a-a-a-a money. lots of money”.

Grandpa walked over to phooey and took the can from him and looked in. the can was filled to the brim with money.

“My Dad told me a story about the man he bought the farm from. He said the man didn’t trust banks and

buried his money. I never believed it but it must be true”. He set the can down and said “let’s dig around here

some more and see if there are any more cans”.

30 minutes later they had 7 cans of money. Grandpa said “I think we have all the cans. Let’s take them inside and count it”.

So they took the cans in and started counted. When they got done they totaled it up and there was $22,530

all in $10s and $20.

Phooey said “what are we going to do with all this money”.

“We will take it to the sheriff. Maybe he can find some descendants of the old owner” Grandpa said.

So they got into Grandpa’s old truck and drove into town and stopped in front of the Sheriff’s office. They got out and went in.

Grandpa said “Ross, we have a problem. We found all this money in tin cans in the yard. I am sure it

belonged to the old man Dad bought the farm from. do you know anything about the family?”

Ross said ” Bill your father bought that farm almost 70 years ago. As far as I’m concerned the money is yours. We will never find the descendants. Take it and do what you want with it. I have more important things to take care of.”