52. True
Friendship
Two very fast friends
were really dejected, because of exploitation by their cruel king. One of the
friends decided to raise his voice against the king. When the king came to know
this, he sentenced the boy to death. Before hanging, the boy expressed a wish
to meet his family. But the king rejected the request. Seeing this the other
friend again requested the king to permit his friend to go his family and also
added he should be hanged, in case his friend did not return. The king accepted
his condition and gave six days' ultimatum to come back. Till then his friend
was kept in observation as prisoner. Six days passed; he didn't return. So his
friend was to be hanged. But at the eleventh hour he came and said to hang him.
But his friend offered him to go back to his family and was ready to be hanged.
Long arguments between them for each other's life were really poignant. It shed
tears from the king's eyes, and the king decided to appoint them court
advisers.
Moral: Tenderness makes progress.
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