Once a rich and wealthy king collected his army and decided to leave his big nation of wealth to take a little country. As he marched, he gave his horses some peas. A monkey came down from one of the trees and took a handful of peas. The king watched the monkey, and as he watched the monkey dropped one pea. It immediately dropped the other peas and searched for that one pea, but could not find it. The king turned his army around and marched home because he realized to lose so much for so little was a very silly idea.
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