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The Feast
The Feast
Once a chief decided to give a feast for his people. He sent his men to
every village. They told the people to come to the chief's house and said,
"The Chief asks each of the men to bring one bottle of palm wine and pour
it into a pot at the door."
The day of the feast came. People put on their best clothes and walked to
the chief's house with their families. They stopped at the door of the
chief's house and poured their bottles into a very big pot at the door.
There was a man who wanted to go to the feast very much, but he had no
palm wine at home. His wife said to him, "You must buy some palm wine."
But the man answered, "What? No, I do not want to buy wine for a feast
that is free. No, no!"
He thought a little and then said, "Hundreds of people will bring their wine
and pour it into the pot. A bottle of water cannot be bad for so much wine."
And so he went to the feast with a bottle of water. He poured his bottle
into the pot as other people did. Then he sat down at the table with all the
other people and waited for the glass of palm wine which he liked so
much.
The chief said, "Let us drink wine, dear guests!"
All the guests took their glasses. But what they drank was not palm wine,
but - water! So our man was not the only one who thought: "A bottle of
water cannot be bad for so much wine."
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