Once Upon A Time There Was A King Who Owned A ...  PRO

"Once upon a time there was a king who owned a beautiful orchard which contained fine fig trees. He hired two watchmen; one blind and one lame to care for this orchard while he went away on a trip.

One day while they were in the orchard, beggars, blind men, lame men, poor widows and hungry children came to the wall surrounding the orchard. They cried out to the watchmen, "Have mercy on us, members of your own race, for we are poor and need to eat just a morsel of the fruit of the fig tree."

Hearing their plea, the lame man said to the blind man, "Come and take me upon your shoulder, so that we may gather figs and give them to the members of our own race at the gate. " So the lame man climbed onto the blind man, reached the fruit, picked it and both gave it to their kinsmen at the the gate. The next day, and each day afterwards, the same request was made. And each day the watchmen picked fruit for their fellowmen.

Sometime afterwards, the owner of the orchard came back and asked, "Where are my figs?? How did you pick the fruit...