Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02
The Fool and The Wise Man.
AN IMPOSSIBLE FABLE.

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ed the Worker Tell HE now who you are"
81 am" replied the first, "a wise man. Men
call me Master"
"What is your occupation?" asked the fool.
"Mv occupation is to teach such fools as YOU"
was the reply.
"Will you teach me % asked the fool
"With pleasure" returned the wise man.
Come with me-
The tool went with the wise man, who led
him to pile of bricks and wood.
"Buld me grand palace and little hut"
The fool built the grand palace and the little
hut When they were finished, the wise man
gave him few coius, and said:
IL will live in the palace, for have earned
it by my brain work. You 60 and live in the
hut; it is best for you; for, being fool, you
would not appreciate the display OF art which
is in the palace, and your hob-naied boots
would spoil the costly carpets; and as the hut
belongs to me (you made it for me, you know,
it is only fair that you should pay me rent tor
the right to live there"
The fool lived in the little hut and paid the
rent, saying: "How wiseis he would new
er have thought of building hut tor myself II
he had not told me, and could not pay my rent
if he did not give me wages !"
The wise man put the fool to dig in mine,
saying
"You dig down into the bowels of the earth
and get COAL and after l have burned the coal,
YOU can have the cinders to warm yourself
BY"
The fool bored down into the earth for coal,
saying:
"This man is not only wise, but good; tor he
Dives me the cinders, which he might have
thrown away"
The wise man said to the fool: 81 wish
some one to dress me, cook for me, drive me
about and such light things. Give me some Of
your children to be my servants
The fool gave his children, saying to HIM
self:
"That is good he will teach them to be WISE
as he does me; they will become gentlemen
like him some day."
few days later the wise man came to the
fool ard said: "Snce taking your children to
be my servants, my expenses have increased
You must take less wages that may be aoie 70
paw your children proper wages"
The fool scratched his head for moment
and then said: Gay, yes; my children should
be paid. consent will live and let live
The wise man said to the fool: "Build me
two schools, one large and one SMALL that our
1u1.o,, ,uou he educated ~
"Why," asked the fool, must build one
large and the other small -
"The wise man replied: "My children, be-
ine wise gentlemen, like myself, they will need
q great education to cultivate their intellects in
an appropriate manner; that is what the large
school is for. Your children, being the child
rem of fool, will have to work with their phys
;cal bodies like you, and therefore will not need
their mental energies cultivated so much. The
small school is for them"
"Now," said the wise man, "you cannot ex-
meet your children to be educated for nothing.
You must pay weekly wage, or, If you wish
them to have FREE education, pay tax
The fool paid both the weekly wage and tax
TO see which was best Later on, he stopped
having the wage and paid little extra tax
One day the wise man came to the fool with
frown, and said: "You have been thinking
81 have" said the fool.
81 will not allow it," roared the wise man;
.If Won do it again, will punish you."
"Hap cried the fool, throwing down his
tools, "you have given yourself away. If you
were as wise as you have pretended to be, you