World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 27 The Wise Queen

There was a king who was very confused, but his wife was very clever.One day, a poor man complained to the king, saying: "My little pony is walking behind the buttocks of my neighbor's cow, but the neighbor says that the little pony belongs to him and refuses to return it to me. Please make it clear to the king." The king said: "The little pony The foal belongs to whoever it ran with." The poor man found the queen, and the queen said, "I have heard the king's sentence. Take a net and go to the forest where the king hunts, and hang it on a tree trunk." The poor man Do as the queen says.The king saw the poor man casting his net on a tree and asked him what he was doing.The poor man said: "I am fishing." The king was very surprised: "How can there be fish in the tree?" The poor man said: "Then, how can the cow give birth to a foal?" .

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