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Class IX English


                                            Module 4 The Kingdom of Fools


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                                             During trial everyone blamed
                 The king and the ministers were   the other and finally it came   The rich merchant was ordered
                     fools in a kingdom.                                   death sentence.
                                               back to the merchant



                                                                       As the merchant, could not fit
                                            One day a thief broke into a
                 They decided to change night   rich merchants house. The wall   the stake for execution, the king
                                                                       asked his men to find a fat man
                  into day and day into night.  of the house collapsed and killed   for execution and they found
                                                  the thief.
                                                                             the disciple.


                                                                       He remembered  his wise guru’s
                 All the people obeyed the rule   The disciple decided to stay
                                                                                                   Finally the Guru and the
                 to sleep during the day and work   there although the Guru told   words. He prayed to his guru in   disciple rule the kingdom wisely.
                                                                        his heart and he came to his
                        at night.                 him not to
                                                                              rescue.

                                                                       The guru tried to confuse the
                                                                       king by saying that whoever dies   The foolish king and the
                 A guru and his disciple came to   Ecery thing cost them a single   first will be the king and the next   minister disguised themselves as
                  the city and were amazed.       duddu only.                                     the two and were taken to the
                                                                       will be the minister in the next   stake and executed.
                                                                             incarnation.
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