"If you are satisfied, justice is not," replied Judge Jacko. "I must make this division equal," and he kept on nibbling at the cheese.
"Give us what is left!" cried one of the cats, jumping up quickly, and earnestly looking the judge in the face.
"What is left belongs to me," replied the judge. "I must be paid for my services in this difficult case."
He then devoured the last piece, and said:—
"Justice is satisfied, and the court is dismissed."
The hungry cats went back to the barn wiser than when they came.
They had learned that ill-gotten gains are unprofitable, and that they should never employ the dishonest to adjust their difficulties. They also learned another lesson:—
"The scales of the law are seldom poised till little or nothing remains in either."
