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igure 1.3 From
F
 Recipes for Tired Teachers edited by Christopher Sion. Addison-Wesley Publishing 
Company, Inc.. 1985.. Reprinted by permission. 

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The Story 
Many years ago in a country in North Africa there lived a king who had some very strange 
of them. 
he plan seemed most fair to the king. The accused could choose his own fate. He simply 
r. When the king found out that they loved each 
ther, he put the young man into prison and set a day for his public trial. Then the kind ordered 
e whole kingdom to be searched for the biggest lion and the most beautiful woman. 
rrived. The young man entered the field. He was so handsome that 
e crowd greeted him with a hum of admiration and fear. How terrible this was for him! 
ng into the field the handsome young soldier turn
he fixed his eyes on the princess, who was sitting on her father's right. The young 
her eyes that the princess knew on which side
lion was and which the lady. There 
as not a moment to lose. His eyes asked her, "Which door shall I choose?" 
r had chos
loveliest in the land. In the 
ances at the soldier. Sometimes she even 
w could
se her lover to another 
w could she bear to see him torn apart by the lion? The princess paused. Then acting 
days and nights of weighing the awful choice, she nodded to 
e right. The young man saw, and without hesitating, walked to the right-hand door and opened 
his is an adaptation of the well-known story, "The Lady 
n. It 
ed i
ation set by the Ministry of Education of the United Republic of Tanzania. 
customs. One of these was the way he decided if a prisoner was guilty or not guilty. Whenever 
one of his subjects was accused of a serious crime, the king decided that the fate of the accused 
would be determined in front of the people. On the chosen day, the king, his followers, and all the 
people gathered on a small hill. In front of the hill was a big building with two doors, exactly alike, 
set side by side. At the king's signal, the accused would walk to the doors and open one 
Behind one door was a hungry lion which would eat the prisoner as a punishment for his crime. 
Behind the other door was a beautiful woman to whom the prisoner would be married 
immediately as a reward for his innocence. 
T
opened a door and was at once either eaten or married. 
Now it happened that the king's beautiful daughter, whom he loved above all things, had fallen in 
love with a poor but handsome young soldie
o
th
Finally, the day of the trial a
th
Advanci
ed, as was his custom, and bowed to 
the king. But
man saw in
the 
w
The princess knew that the woman her fathe
past she had seen this woman throw admiring gl
suspected that these glances were returned. Ho
woman? Ho
en was the 
she bear to lo
on the decision she had made after
th
it......