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Kingdom fed by the Tigris and Euphrates once in the order by a king who was very fond of and love fish.
One day he was sitting with Sherem, the Queen, in the palace garden directly opposite bank of the river Tigris, which at that time stretched ranks beautiful boat; and with a view of the inquisitive in boats glide, where in the boat sat a fisherman who had a big catch of fish.
Realizing that the King watched, and knew that the King was very fond of certain fish, the fishermen salute the King and skillfully bring to edge of boat, come and kneel at the King and begged the King to accept such fish as a gift. The King was very pleased with it, and ordered a large amount of money given to fishermen.
But before fishermen are leaving the palace garden, the Queen turned to the king and said: "You have done something stupid." The King was surprised to hear the Queen say so and ask how could. The Queen replied:
"The news that you give a large number of prizes for the prize is so small that will rapidly spread throughout the kingdom and will be known as the reward fishermen. All the fishermen were probably caught a big fish that will take him to the palace, and if they are not paid by fishermen first, they'll go with the dissatisfaction, and quietly going to talk bad about you among his friends. "
"You're telling the truth, and it opened my eyes," said the king, "but do not you see what it means to be a king, if for that reason he pulled back a gift that has been given?" Then, after feeling that the Queen is ready to argue with that , he turned angrily and said "It is finished and need not be discussed again."
However, the next day, when the King's mind was happy, the Queen walked over and said that if the reason that the King can not take back a gift that has been given, he himself would arrange it. "You have to call back fishermen," he said, "and then ask, 'Is this fish is male or female?' If he says a male, then you said that you want is a female fish, but when the fishermen say that the fish are female, you would reply by saying that you want a male fish. In this way it can be adjusted very well. "
king believes that this is the best way to get out of trouble, and ordered that the fishermen had brought to him. When fishermen, who turns out to be a very clever man, kneeling before the king, the king said to him: "O fisherman, tell me, do you take yesterday's fish is male or female?"
The fisherman replied, "Fish are not male and not female." At that time the King smiled at the answer that very cleverly, and to add to the aggravation of the Rau, ordered the palace treasurer to give some more money to fishermen.
Then the fishermen to save money in the pockets of his skin, thanking the King, and carry the bag over his shoulder, hurried away, but not long after, he realized he had dropped a small coin. By putting the bag back to the ground, he bent down and picked up the coins and resumed his journey, followed by the King and Queen of the eye that oversees all actions.
"Look! how Her stingy! "said Sherem, the Queen, with pride in his victory. "He actually lowered his pocket just to pick a single small coin because maybe she would feel lost just by thinking that the coin would be taken by one of the waiters king, or someone who is poor, who need to buy a bread and begging that the king blessed with longevity. "
"Again you speak correctly," replied the king, the queen feel the truth of the comment;and once again the fishermen were taken to come to court. "Do you have the human or wild animal?" King asked him. "Although you may already rich without having to work hard again, but the stingy nature within you does not allow you to leave a small coin for someone else." Then the king ordered the fishermen to go and not show his face again in the city of his kingdom.
At that time the fishermen knelt at his feet and cried: "Listen to the servant, O king, the protector of the poor! May God bless lord with longevity. Not the value of the coin is that servant picked, but because on one side of the coin is the lettering praise the name of God, and the other side depicted the King's face. Servant fear that someone might unintentionally because they do not see the coin, will be stepped on. Let the King that determines whether I'm doing this deserves to be condemned or not. "
The answer made the king very happy not infinite, and provide more fishing mentioned large amount of money. And anger also became queen when it subsided, and she became unconscious and see the friendly against fishermen who went with pockets loaded with money.
Fairytale - A King and Fishermen (END)
