Share the Cup!

[413 words] In a land far away (as in it only exists in my own mind) a certain villager was given a cup. He was told by the old, bearded man who gave it to him that anyone who drinks from this cup would be made well from whatever afflicted them. Right after saying this the old man mysteriously vanishes. The villager can’t believe his good fortune! His first thought is: “I am never going to be ill again! No matter what illness or injury comes my way all I’m going to have to do is drink from this cup.” The villager then locks the cup away in the safest spot in his house, intending to only bring it out when it was needed for personal use. Even though the next time he walked through the neighborhood he noticed many who were coughing, lame, blind, and even dying he hardened…