The jewel
In a small town a long way away from here, there lived a chicken farmer with a secret. Every day he went to look after his chickens and count how many eggs had been laid and how many little chicks had hatched out of the eggs. When he saw the little yellow chickens he was pleased, because he knew they would grow into strong healthy chickens and one day they would lay eggs for him
Sometimes he took some eggs and some chickens to the market, for if he did not he would have far too many. He loved to walk around his farm and observe the chicks and chickens stepping and pecking around him. He loved his chickens, but he was unwilling to send any of them away, for he knew in his secret heart that one day one of the eggs would hatch and inside there would be a jewel of great price, and that this jewel would make him the most powerful man in the world.
So every time an egg was laid he carefully scrutinised it, trying to guess what was in there. Every time he went to market he worried that he had given away the jewel, and so he found all kinds of secret ways of making sure that the jewel was not in the eggs he sold.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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