01:41: Refer to the passage from"The Wise Fool."
Further discussion seemed useless, and the meeting
was just about to break up when the fool walked up and
demanded to be heard. "Listen to me," he said. "The
fairies say my mother should die. It is a fair punishment
for her criíme. But the fairies walked across my land as
they came to the village. I demand that they rutb out their
footprints before they are allowed to take mother away."
It seemed a foolish, meaningless demand, and everyone
said, "How simple!" The fairies agreed.
At sundown the fairies were still working on the sandy
plot. Two days went by. And a week. And another.
Because just as one set of footprints were got rid of,
another set appeared. By the end of the second week, in
What is the moral of the passage?
O It is unwise to make deals with fairies.
O It is impossible to erase all of one's footprints.
O There can be wisdom in an act that seems foolish.
O A puníshment should be fair and based on the crim
- fairies had covered the entire plot with footprints.