uch shall have more
and little
shall have less

  
 

ONCE upon a time there was a
king who did the best he could to
rule wisely and well, and to deal
justly by those under him whom
he had to take care of; and as he
could not trust hearsay, he used
every now and then to slip away
out of his palace and go among his
people to hear what they had to
say for themselves about him and
the way he ruled the land.

Well, one such day as this,
when he was taking a walk, he
strolled out past the walls of the
town and into the green fields
until he came at last to a fine big
house that stood by the banks of a river, wherein lived a
man and his wife who were very well to do in the world.
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