Once upon a time there lived two brothers. The younger one was a judge, and the older one ran the household. Here's how the younger brother says to the older one:
— If I were you, I would run the household differently.
The elder was offended and said:
“It’s easy for you to reason while sitting at home.” All you know is that you are resting. Your whole job is to wag your tongue. If you tried to manage a household yourself, you would immediately understand how difficult it is.
“Well,” the younger one answers. - If it seems to you that being a judge is easier, let's switch. You will do my work, and I will do yours.
So they did. The older brother began to judge, and the younger brother ran the household.
One day two hunters came to their house and asked to resolve their dispute. Here the elder brother, who was supposed to judge them, says:
- Tell me how it happened.
One hunter says:
“I was walking through the forest, I saw a deer and shot. The bullet hit him in the head. So I killed him.
“No,” the second hunter objects, “I killed the deer.” I fired, and the bullet pierced the deer's back leg and ear.
The elder brother judged them this way:
- Maral belongs to the first of you, since the same bullet cannot hit the leg and ear at once.
The first hunter was very pleased with the new judge. When the hunters left, the younger brother said to the elder:
-You judged incorrectly. It seems that the second hunter was telling the truth. If a deer rubbed its ear with its hind leg, then the bullet could actually pierce both the leg and the ear at the same time.
The older brother had to admit that the younger brother was right.
A few days later, two more people came to the trial. They lived next door, and each of them had a camel. One day they saw that both camels were licking one camel. “My baby camel!” - each of them decided. They quarreled and came to the judge so that he could resolve their dispute. The elder brother looked at the camels that the disputants had brought with them and said, pointing to one of them:
— This camel gave birth to a baby camel: her belly is retracted.
Here the younger brother could not stand it and said:
- Don't be offended, but you judged incorrectly. In my opinion, this dispute can be resolved this way: you need to put the baby camel in a boat and push it away from the shore. Then the mother camel will rush into the water, but the other camel will not move.
The disputants liked this decision and left. So the elder brother finally realized that he was a worthless judge, and set about his previous affairs.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru