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The Wise Man

5th March 2022

One day a man was carrying three items on his head and he wanted to cross a river in order to get to his destination. The items were a wolf, a hen, corn and one canoe. He knew he would only have one chance to carry one item after the other. The old man does not want to lose any of his items due that a wolf can easily eat the hen while a hen can also eat the corn. The man was very confused and doesn’t know what to do. Later, he carried a hen and left the wolf with corn to the other side as a wolf can not eat corn, after he had dropped the hen, he comes back to carry a wolf to the other side and returns the hen back from where he was coming from and picked the corn to the other side with the wolf then he later went back to the lake a brings back the hen to have a safe trip with his items.

 

Oyesetan Waheed Prince

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