A rich man
once invited many friends to a feast. He needed fish very badly to have a
special dish prepared for them. But fish was nowhere to be had. All of a sudden
a fisherman came there with a fine large fish. But the gate keeper did not let
him in, till he had agreed to pay him half the sum he would get for it
The rich man was greatly pleased to
see the fish, and asked him what its price was. He said that it was twenty
lashes on his bare back. The rich man was surprised to hear that. But the
fisherman was not prepared to accept anything else. So the rich man asked his
servant to give him the lashes as gently as possible.
When he had received ten, he cried
out that the other ten would be received by his partner. The rich man was
surprised all the more, and asked him who that fool was. He replied that it was
his own gate-keeper, and told him the share he had demanded. This made the rich
man very angry. He asked the gate-keeper to be given ten hard lashes on his
bare back. Then he was dismissed, and the fisherman was paid twenty rupees as
the price of his fish.
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