Samy and Kitty were two cats. Once, while wandering in a garden, they found a piece of cake. Both of them leapt at it at once. Samy mewed, “Hey, Kitty! This is my cake. I saw it first.” “No” exclaimed kitty. “I picked it up first, so it is mine.”
The argument soon heated up. A monkey sitting on a nearby tree was seeing all this. They asked him to judge who would get the cake. The clever monkey took the cake and broke it into two. “You both can take equal halves of the cake.” But then he said. “Oh! This one is larger than the other. I’ll bite off a piece to make them equal.”
Then after eating a piece he said, “Now this one looks larger than the other. I must be just. Here I’ll eat some more to make them equal.” Slowly he kept saying this and finished up the cake. The cats then realized that they had been fooled. Their fight had benefited someone else and both of them had not tasted the cake at all.
Moral: A third person gains when two people fight
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