There was once a great famine in the animal Kingdom. The Lion, who was the king of the beasts announced that he was sick. Every animal was called upon to go and greet him. When it was the tortoise's turn to call on the King, he paused at the entrance to his den and looked hard on the ground. He noticed that the footprints at the entrance of the king's den went inside only, and none was coming from inside. He then turned back and went home, saying to himself, "if the King is sick with Iba(Malaria) , my blood will not be his 'agbo'(Drug) ." Think Always.
Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s beautiful daughter so he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the merchant’s debt if he could marry the daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag.If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail. They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant’s garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up ...
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