once there lived a poor man near a millionaire's house. When the wind blew from the west, he would dismantle his hut and rebuild it in the east and when the wind blew from the east, he would move to the west. When the wind blew from the north, he would move to the south and when the wind blew from the south, he would move to the north. Seeing his strange behavior, the millionaire ordered a servant to go to ask the man. The servant asked the poor man: "Why do you often move here and there?" The poor man said: "Please go and tell your boss that the reason I often move here and there is because I want to smell his food." The servant went back to tell the
millionaire what the poor man had told him. The millionaire thought: "If he lives by the smell of my food, I can enslave him." With that thought, the millionaire took the poor man to complain to a judge about that. The judge said to the millionaire: "You can enslave this man if what you have said is true." The poor man said: "Please take me to the king and I will beg him to pay for me." The millionaire then took the poor man to the king. The poor man said to the king: "Your Majesty, I live near this millionaire's house. When the wind blows from the west, I move to the east. When the wind blows from the east, I dismantle my hut and rebuild it in the west and when the wind blows from the north, I move to the south and when the wind blows from the south, I move to the north. The reason why I do this is because I want to inhale the delicious smell of this millionaire's food, but this millionaire accused me of living by the smell of his food, so he
sued me for that and the judge ruled that I had to be this millionaire's slave. Therefore, I come here to beg Your Majesty to kindly pay for me The king said to the millionaire: "Is the matter true as this poor man has just said?" The millionaire replied: "It is true as he has just told you, Your Majesty." The king realized at once that the judge had made an unfair ruling. Thus, he ordered a piece of white cloth to be spread in the sunlight and money to be piled up on the cloth and then said: "My dear millionaire, you can now go to take the money I pay for this poor man." The millionaire was about to pick up the money from the white cloth when the king said: "If the poor man had really eaten your food, you should then take the money on that white cloth, but this man only inhaled the smell of your food, so you should take only the shadow of the money as it is enough for the cost of the smell of your food." Both the poor man and the millionaire
agreed with the king's decision and took their leave and went back home.
