Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing.

A sad man walks up the road. He stops when he sees an old man sitting on his porch. The old man asks what the trouble is. The sad man describes how he has lost everything. The old man sees a green lizard on a leaf and catches it.

In his closed hand, the lizard is handed to the poor man, but it is no longer a green lizard. It has transformed into an emerald! The sad man is sad no more and returns to the town. There he sells the emerald and uses the money to start a shop. The shop does well, and the man prospers. Years go by. The man is now married, wealthy, and with a family. One day he wakes up and thinks of the old man and the lizard. He decides to go and find the emerald and return it to the told man. He locates the store and buys back the emerald. He walks down the road until he comes to the old man's house. There he is, much older but still sitting on his porch. The happy man tells the old man the story of how the old man's generosity changed the happy man's life. "I have brought you back the emerald!" The old man accepts the emerald and places it on a leaf - it becomes a lizard and runs off.