WHO STOLE THE RUBY?
A dying King called his three sons to him and gave each of them a ruby. “Keep this,” said he, “in remembrance of your father.”
The three rubies were put into a box and locked up. Some time afterwards, on opening the box, only two rubies were found in it, and the third one was missing.
Now the three sons knew that had a thief been there, he would have helped himself to all the stones, so they said within themselves: “One of our friends has done this; let us go and tell the Priest.”
So they started off together, and on the way met a man, who said: “Friends, have you seen my camel?”
“Was it blind?” asked the eldest brother.
“Yes,” said the man.
“Had it no tail?” asked the second.
“You are right,” said the man.