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Question: A poor farmer with a beautiful daughter is heavily in debt to his landlord, an old ugly miser. The landlord is in love (lust) with the daughter and goes to collect his rent. As usual the farmer cannot pay.
The landlord threatens to evict, but then gives the owner an option. They are standing on pebbled ground, some pebbles are black and some are white. The farmer says he will take a black pebble and a white pebble in each hand.
The daughter must take a pebble from either hand. If she chooses a black pebble, she must marry the landlord and the farmer keeps the farm.If she takes a white pebble from his hand the farmer gets to keep the farm and the landlord will never trouble them again. The daughter agrees, but notices that the landlord has picked up two black pebbles.
She has been told she must do nothing other than take a pebble from one of his closed hands, so pointing out his cheat would be pointless.
Answers: A poor farmer with a beautiful daughter is heavily in debt to his landlord, an old ugly miser. The landlord is in love (lust) with the daughter and goes to collect his rent. As usual the farmer cannot pay.
The landlord threatens to evict, but then gives the owner an option. They are standing on pebbled ground, some pebbles are black and some are white. The farmer says he will take a black pebble and a white pebble in each hand.
The daughter must take a pebble from either hand. If she chooses a black pebble, she must marry the landlord and the farmer keeps the farm.If she takes a white pebble from his hand the farmer gets to keep the farm and the landlord will never trouble them again. The daughter agrees, but notices that the landlord has picked up two black pebbles.
She has been told she must do nothing other than take a pebble from one of his closed hands, so pointing out his cheat would be pointless.
She says which one she wants and asks him to show the other. He has to show a black one, so the one she picks is assumed to be white.
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