2. (A) Write a story from the given outline and give it a suitable title: Points: A merchant loses large sum of money-suspects servants - asks Birbal to find the thief-Birbal gives each servant a stick-all sticks of equal length-says that overnight the stick belonging to the thief will grow an inch-all servants locked in separate rooms for the night-next morning servants called in-one servant's stick one inch shorter - he is the thief
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Topic :ACLEVER JUDGE
One day a rich man lost his purse. He thought that the purse had been stolen by one of his servants, but he could not detect the actual thief. Then he made a complaint to Birbal. Birbal summoned all the servants but all of them denied the charge. Birbal then hit upon a plan to detect the thief. He gave all of them sticks of equal length and asked them to submit the sticks on the following day. He also told that the stick of the thief will increase an inch by the magic touch of his judgement-stick at that time. All the servants went home and kept their sticks as it was. But the servant who stole the purse reduced the length of his stick by an inch. Next day when all the servants submitted their sticks to the Birbal, one stick was found shorter by an inch and the thief was easily detected and sent to jail.
Moral of the story is 'One cannot hide one's misdeed by tricks."
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