THE POWER OF INFORMATION

In a crowded place a young man asks, "whose wallet is this?" Everybody responds by touching, thereby revealling where they had kept theirs.  A hardsman lucky to have a goat on a market day and in dire need of cash set out to sell it as at other days.  A middle aged man asked him on the way, "What has your dog been feeding on?, it must fetch a good price today!"  The herdsman took him for a fool and continued.  A few steps ahead,  a young man jumped from a bush, exclaiming; "Hey, how dare you scare me with your dog?  Would you be so unfair?"  The hardsman looked at his goat closely and thought.  What kind of people are these who thinks my goat is a dog!, he went on with on towards the market.  At the cross roads towards the entry of the market grounds, an innocent looking man alighted from the lorry and came straight to him.  He spoke politely to the hardsman and said to him, " I know you came to sell your dog.  Please let me buy it right here.  They are going for a hundred shillings inside there"  He looked at his creature - this must be a dog, now convinced