Algamesh, 'Son, Have You Paid to Yourself Not Less Than One-Tenth of All You Have Earned?'

Algamesh asked his son to save one-tenth of all he had earned for the past year. The boy replied: 'Yes, master, I have.' "'And what have you done with it?'"'I have given it to Azmur, the brickmaker, who told me he was traveling over the far seas' Algamesh then went away and returned a few months later. He said: 'Your savings are gone, youth. You have jerked your wealth tree up by the roots'