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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL


                                                   Class IX- English


                                                The Kingdom of Fools

                                                     Lesson Notes





                     In the Kingdom of Fools the king and the minister were idiots.

                     They decided to change night into day and day into night.
                     They made a rule that all the activities to be done in the day should be

                       performed at night and they should sleep as soon as the sun rises. Anyone
                       who violated the rule would be punished with death.

                     One day a guru and his disciple came to their city. They were amazed at what

                       they saw. In the evening the town became active.
                     They went to buy some groceries and were surprised to know that they could

                       buy anything for a single duddu.
                     The guru realized that it was a city of fools and left. But the disciple remained

                       there for everything was cheap there.
                     One day a thief broke into a rich merchant’s house. The wall of the house

                       collapsed and killed the thief.

                     The incident was investigated and finally the rich merchant was ordered death
                       by the king.

                     As the merchant could not fit the stake for execution, the king asked his men

                       to find a fat man for execution.
                     The soldiers immediately took the disciple for execution who had turned very

                       fat.
                     He remembered his wise guru’s words. He prayed to his guru in his heart. The

                       guru at once came to save his disciple.
                     The guru tried to confuse the king by saying that whoever dies first will be the

                       king and the next will be the minister in the next incarnation.

                     The king and the minister disguised themselves as the two and were taken to
                       the stake and executed.

                     Finally the guru and the disciple agree to rule the kingdom and change old
                       laws.
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