The pig entered by the gate, and, after having eaten his
fill of the vegetables within, came out, laughing at the poor camel,
who had had to stay outside, because he was too tall to enter the
garden by the gate, and said, "Now, would you be tall or short?"
Then they thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion that the
camel should keep his hump and the pig his snout, observing:
"Tall is good, where tall would do;
Of short, again, 't is also true!"
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THE MAN AND HIS PIECE OF CLOTH
A man in the East, where they do not require as much clothing as in
colder climates, gave up all worldly concerns and retired to a wood,
where he built a hut and lived in it.
His only clothing was a piece of cloth which he wore round his waist.
But, as ill-luck would have it, rats were plentiful in the wood, so he
had to keep a cat. The cat required milk to keep it, so a cow had to
be kept. The cow required tending, so a cow-boy was employed. The boy
required a house to live in, so a house was built for him. To look
after the house a maid had to be engaged. To provide company for the
maid a few more houses had to be built, and people invited to live in
them.
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