Santiago’s Silver Mine

Maybe it was foolish for two boys to want to be rich, but when your father must go off to the city to find work because there is not enough to eat and there is no work for him in the village, you really need some money.

Santiago and Andreas decided they had to do something to help their families. They tried everything they could think of. They carried water, they watched the neighbour’s cow, they guided tourists through the village church and the abandoned silver mine in the hills nearby.

It was there that Andreas got his great idea…