The Importance of Taking Good Gifts

If a friend praises a bracelet or bag, you are normally expected to immediately say, take it. But if you are really determined to hold on to it, you can always say, yes, isn't it beautiful? It was a gift. There's a famous story that john and lorna marshall, who carried out a study of colahari bushmen in the sixties, once gave a knife to one of their favourie informants. They left and came back a year later, only to discover that pretty much every one in the band had been in possession of the knife at some point in between.