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.”

從前有一個國王，他喜歡寫故事，但是他寫的故事很不好看。人們因為怕他，所以都說他的故事好看。有一天國王把他的故事給一個有名的作家看，他等著作家夸獎他，而作家卻說他的故事寫得很差勁以至于該扔進火里燒了。國王很生氣，把他扔進了監獄。 過了些日子，國王釋放了作家。并將自己的一些新故事拿給作家看，問他感覺如何。 作家看了之后立刻轉身對著士兵說；“請把我送回監獄吧。“