It was market day in the city and carts filled with goods and drawn by animals had arrived from all over the countryside to sell their animals or their ware. There was a lot activity and loud noise all over. There were peddlers, merchants, farmers and noblemen, clowns and showmen present. The King was also expected to come there.
In a stable close by a foal was born. But as soon as it was able to stand it fled from all the noise and excitement and hid between two oxen, that has brought a plough to be put up for sale.
The owner or the mare wanted the foal but the owner of the oxen said: " The foal is mine, because it has chosen for itself where it wants to stay."
They took their dispute to the King, who who decided that the foal should stay where it was,
as it has chosen the two oxen as its parents.
The next evening when the King was out in his carriage, he came across the owner of the mare standing in the middle of the road with a fishing-net. He was casting the net as if to catch fish.
"What are you doing?" asked the King.
" Fishing, your Majesty." replied the man. " If oxen can be the natural parents of a foal, why shouldn't I be able to catch some fish in the middle of a street and not a river."
The King ordered that the foal be restored to the owner of the mare, the foal's natural mother.
TRUTH IS BORN OUT OF LOGIC
