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Many years ago, in a country in North Africa, there lived a king who had some very strange

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customs.

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One of this was the way he decided if a prisoner was guilty or not guilty.

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Whenever one of his subjects was accused of a serious crime, the king decided that the

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fate of the accused would be determined in front of the people.

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On the chosen day, the king, his followers and all the people gathered on a small hill.

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In front of the hill was a big building with two doors, exactly alike, set side by side.

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At the king's sign up, the accused would walk to the doors and open one of them.

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Behind one door was a hungry lion which would eat the prisoner as a punishment for his crime.

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And the other door was the beautiful woman to whom the prisoner would be married immediately

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as a reward for his innocence.

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The plan seemed most unfair to the king.

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The accused could choose his own fate.

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He simply opened the door and was at once either eaten or married.

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Now it happened that the king's beautiful daughter, whom he loved about all things,

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falling in love with a poor but handsome young soldier. When the king found out

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that they loved each other, he put the young man into prison and set a date for

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his public trial. Then the king ordered the whole kingdom to be searched for the

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biggest lion and the most beautiful woman. Finally, the day of their trial

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arrived. The young man entered the field. He was so handsome that the crowd greeted

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him with a hand of admiration and fear. How terrible this was for him!

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Advancing into the field, the handsome young soldier turned, as was his custom, and bowed

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to the king. But he fixed his eyes on the princess, who was sitting on her father's

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right. The young man saw in her eyes that the princess knew on which side the lion was

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in which the lady there was not a moment to lose his eyes asked her which door shall i choose

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the princess knew that the woman her father had chosen was the loveliest in the land

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in the past she had seen this woman throw admiring glances at the soldier sometimes

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she even suspected that these glances were returned how could she bear to lose her lover

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to another woman. How could she bear to see him torn apart by the lion? The princess paused.

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Then, acting on the decision she had made after days and nights of weighing the awful choice,

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she nodded to the right. The young man saw, and without hesitating,

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walked to the right-hand door and opened it and...