Story, Story... THE MAN WHO NEVER LIED

Once upon a time, there lived a wise man named Jazu. He never lied. All the people in the land, even the ones who lived two hundred miles away, knew about him.

The king heard about Jazu and ordered his subjects to bring him to the palace. The king looked at him and asked, “Jazu, is it true, that you have never lied and you will never lie in your life?” “Yes, your royal highness, I have never lied,” Jazu replied. The king encouraged him to keep telling the truth. Be careful the king said, lie is cunning and it gets on your tongue easily.

Several days passed and the king called Jazu once again. There was a big crowd: the king was about to go hunting. The king held his horse by the mane; his left foot was already on the stirrup. He ordered Jazu: “Go to my palace and tell the queen I will be with her for lunch. Tell her to prepare a big feast. You will

Moral:

have lunch with me then.”

Jazu bowed down and went to the queen. Then the king laughed and said, “We won t go hunting and now Jazu will lie to the queen. Tomorrow we will laugh on his behalf.” However, the wise Jazu went to the palace and said: “Maybe you should prepare a big feast for lunch tomorrow, and maybe you shouldn t. Maybe the king will come by noon, and maybe he won t.”

“Tell me, will he come, or won t he?” - asked the queen. “I don t know if he put his right foot on the stirrup, or he put his left foot on the ground after I left.” Everybody waited for the king. He came the next day and said to the queen: “The wise Jazu, who never lies, lied to you yesterday.”

The queen told him about the words of Jazu. And the king realized, that the wise man never lies, and says only that, which he saw with his eyes.

Always say the truth and stick to what you see with your own eyes.