One day, a
dog and a fox were quarrelling over a piece of meat.
The dog said,
“Let me eat it!” But the fox replied, “No. it belongs to me.”
They agreed
to ask their friend, Mr Monkey, to decide the matter for them. The monkey listened to what they had to
say.
“To be fair
to both of you,” he said. “I shall divide the meat into two equal pieces and
give you one each.”
He took a
pair of scales and a kitchen
knife. He cut the meat into two pieces and weighed each of them on the scales. However,
one was heavier than the other. He
bit off a piece from the heavier portion, and weighed the two pieces again.
This time, the other portion was heavier. He then bit off a piece from this
portion and weighed the two pieces. Once again, one piece was heavier that the
other. He went on like this, weighing and biting some of the meat, until all
the meat was finished.
“If we’d only
known this,” the dog said to the fox, “We would never have asked the monkey to
be the judge.”
Really, the
old Korean saying is quite true ‘It’s better to settle a case out of court than
to settle at the court and lose everything.’
-FIN-
Read the Indonesian translation HERE
Author: Unknown
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