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The Judge Monkey

Once two cats found a loaf of bread and began fighting over it. They asked a monkey sitting in a tree to divide it fairly between them. The monkey agreed but cleverly took small bites from each piece until he had eaten the entire loaf himself. When the loaf was gone, the monkey left. The cats realized they should not have fought and could have shared the loaf if they remained united.

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The Judge Monkey

Once two cats found a loaf of bread and began fighting over it. They asked a monkey sitting in a tree to divide it fairly between them. The monkey agreed but cleverly took small bites from each piece until he had eaten the entire loaf himself. When the loaf was gone, the monkey left. The cats realized they should not have fought and could have shared the loaf if they remained united.

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The Judge Monkey

Once upon a time, two cats were passing through a street. Suddenly they spotted
a loaf of bread lying beneath a tree. Both pounced upon it and caught the loaf at
the same time.

“It is mine. I saw it first," claimed one cat. While the other said, “I pounced
upon it first and so it belongs to me." After having fought for a while, one cat said,
“Let us divide it into two and take one piece each." “Indeed, a good idea," said
the other cat. “But how do we divide it now?"

A monkey sitting on the branch of the tree had watched all that happened
between the two cats. “That loaf of bread looks good. I could do with it myself,"
he thought. Slowly he came down from the tree and walked up to the confused
cats.

“Yes, my dear friends! Can I help you?" asked the monkey. The cats told
the monkey what the problem was and said, “Why do not you be the judge
between us?" When the monkey nodded, the cats said, “Please divide this loaf for
us."

The clever monkey smilingly broke the bread into two pieces. But one piece
was a little bigger that the other. “OH no! I will take a little bite of this bigger
piece to make both equal," said the monkey, slyly. He took a bite from the bigger
piece. But, he had taken a big bite. “Uh oh! Now it has become smaller than the
other piece. I will just have to take a little bite from this piece now," said the
clever monkey.

The Judge Monkey took another bite. The two cats sat in front of the
monkey, seeing the loaf of bread they had found getting smaller and smaller.
When the whole loaf was eaten by the monkey, the monkey said, “I am sorry. I
was really difficult to divide that loaf. I must be going now." And the monkey
jumped onto the tree and was gone.

“If only we had not quarreled among ourselves, we would have remained
united and we need not have to go to the monkey and to become hungry now,"
said the two cats.

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