'The GUILTY are always AFRAID'

This is a short story of three thieves, Two big and one small. They lived in a village where stealing is a Taboo and when caught is met with capital punishment. The villagers have high respect for the king. They present the best out of their yields to the king. If you are a farmer after harvest, one is expected to take the best of his yield as a gift to the most revered king . The King normally organizes festival for people to bring their best yields and the best amongst the best will be selected by panel of judges and after selection the one's that top the selection will be rewarded by the king with traditional titles and some will be given money and the overall will be allowed to choose from king's Daughters to marry. That fateful year one farmer reared his Cow so deligently to present to the king and after the festival, the king was very excited with the Cow. It was so big that it measured almost a caterpillar size. People from far and near came to see the cow, it became a tourist site. The King so much Loved the Cow. This Story is a fiction, characters used are not real. In that region, everything that belongs to the king is unique. Unique in it enormous size and Beauty. And anyone who steals from the king, DEATH is The penalty. The king owns a mighty cow almost twice size of a full grown elephant. One day the three thieves conceived a plan and connived to steal the king's Cow and took it out of the village to a far away bush where nobody could see them and decided to kill the Cow. After killing the cow, they shared the meat into three portions since they were three. But Two portions were the same size and bigger than the remaining one portion. And from all indication the smaller portion was meant for the smaller person amongst them and it didn't go down well with him in his mind. He was nursing a plan on how he can get an equal portion with them, he suddenly came up with a plan. The smaller person told the two that the king will know who stole his cow, the two guys nearly jumped out of their skin in fear and they asked the smaller one, 'how would the king gets to know the people that stole his cows? after all they took the cow out of the town in the dead night and they were quite aware nobody saw them. The smaller person answered them , 'The person who will be given the smaller portion is going to be the person that will expose them. The two greedy thieves grudgingly said okay !! " Let's join all the meat together and share again. LESSON: Don't cheat.