A Judge and a Clever Thief
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An Intelligent Judge and a Clever Thief
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Long ago, there was a rich man. Once he lost his purse. He thought that one of his servants had stolen the purse, but he failed to detect the real thief. Then he complained to a judge. All the servants were summoned but everyone denied the charge. Then the judge thought of a plan to detect the thief. He gave sticks of equal length to all of them and told them to submit the sticks the next day. He also said that the thief’s stick would increase an inch every night by the magic touch of his judg(e)ment stick.
At night the real thief could not sleep at all in tension. He made a plan. He cut an inch from his stick, thinking that all the sticks would be equal length the next morning. The next day all the servants appeared before the judge with their sticks and submitted them to the judge. One stick was found shorter by an inch and the thief was easily detected and handed over to the police for sending him to jail.
Moral: None can hide his misdeed by tricks.
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