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51. A TEST FOR MINISTERIAL
APPOINTMENT
A king wanting an intelligent man as his minister devised the following test : he erected a pillar in the middle of a large lake and announced that he would give a handsome reward to any one who, remaining on the bank of the lake, would tie a rope round the pillar. A certain man came to try his luck. He drove a large peg into the ground on the bank of the lake and tied one end of the rope to the peg and took the other end in his hand and went round on the bank of the lake and thus succeeded in tying up the pillar. Spectators appreciated his intelligence and the king's men on watch reported it to the king who was happy to see that the test he had devised fetched him the right kind of man. He duly made the man his minister.
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