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| As King Parveez and Queen Shireen were sitting in their palace one day, a fisherman who was selling beautiful fish was brought in front of them. King Parveez decided to 1 a fish and gave the fisherman 4,000 dirham for it. The fisherman was wild with 2 . He thanked King Parveez and left. Queen Shireen turned to her husband in anger and 3 him for paying so much for a fish. The king said that the fish was purchased and that there was 4 that could be done about it. 5 , Queen Shireen insisted that the fisherman should be 6 . She said, "We will ask the fisherman about the 7 of the fish. If he answers it is female, we will say we want a male fish and if he replies it is male, we will say we want a female fish! Either way, we will be able t  o return the fish and have our 8 back." So the poor fisherman was called back and was asked the question. Fortunately, he was 9 enough not to be caught out. The fisherman replied, "This fish is 10 in the sense that it is neither male nor female." King Parveez was so 11 by the wisdom of the man that he 12 a further 4,000 dirham to be paid to him. The fisherman thanked King Parveez 13 , but as he was about to leave with the heavy bag of money, one of the 14 fell onto  the floor. The fisherman 15 bent down tolook for the coin. "Look how greedy this man is!" Queen Shireen 16 . "One coin has fallen out of his money bag and he searches for it instead of leaving it for some other poor 17 in the palace to find." The fisherman heard this 18 and said, "It is not out of greediness that I search for the coin but rather because it had the picture of 19 King Parveez on it. I would not 20 anyone to step on the coin." | ||||
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