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BOILED EGGS AND BOILED POTATOES #Inspirational Moral
Stories
A young
man, John, left his city to make his fortune, and returned after many
years as
a rich person. Taking undue advantage, a cunning shopkeeper sent a
dozen
boiled eggs to John’s home and, later, charged him a thousand ducats
for
these! John refused to pay such a high price, and the shopkeeper took him
to
court. The trial had begun when John reached the court. The shopkeeper
pleaded
that he’d asked John to pay a thousand ducats for a dozen eggs,
because
a dozen chicks would have been hatched from these, to become hens
later.
These would have multiplied year after year, and he’d have got a big
hen
house. When the judge asked John why he had reached late, John said
that he
had boiled some potatoes and sowed them in a field, to get a rich
harvest
of potatoes the next year. The astonished judge asked: ‘How can
boiled
potatoes yield a good harvest?’ John shot back: ‘Just as boiled eggs
can bear
chicks!’
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