Story 24  The King and His Stories
  Once there was a king. He likes to write stories, but his stories were not good. As people were afraid of him, they all said his stories were good.
  One day the king showed his stories to a famous writer. He waited the writer to praise these stories. But the writer said his stories were so bad that he should throw them into fire. The king got very angry with him and sent him to prison.
  After some time, the king set him free. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked what he thought of them.
 After reading them, the writer at once turned to the soldiers and said: “ Take me back to prison, please.”

故事24  國(guó)王和他的故事
  從前有一個(gè)國(guó)王，他喜歡寫(xiě)故事，但是他寫(xiě)的故事很不好。人們怕他，都說(shuō)他的故事好。有一天國(guó)王把他的故事給一名作家看，他想要作家贊揚(yáng)他的這些故事，而作家說(shuō)他的故事是如此的差以至于該扔進(jìn)火里。國(guó)王很生氣，把他送到監(jiān)獄。
  過(guò)了些日子，國(guó)王給了作家自由。國(guó)王重新將自己的一些新故事給作家看并問(wèn)他感覺(jué)怎么樣。
 作家看了之后立刻轉(zhuǎn)身對(duì)士兵說(shuō)著；“請(qǐng)把我送回監(jiān)獄吧。“