The following story is a typical goblin story, in which goblins reward a visrtous man and punish one who is mean, greedy and insencere. In this particular story, however, the goblins are not portrayed as the international benefactors to one and as the intentional malefactors to the other. Rather, something else, which may be Mountain Spirit in this case, seems to arrange the events in such a way that goblins with their supernatural powers reward one and punish the other. The moral is simply to warn against selfishness and greed which are both sides of the same coin.