THE MAN THE KING DIED FOR
Years ago a king was out with some people hunting. They noticed a lot of people on the river’s edge. They saw a man caught in the rapids, and he was headed for the waterfall and certain death. They recognized the man as a convicted criminal. They laughed that justice would now be done even though the city and state didn’t have to kill him. Nature would take care of the man for them. Much to their surprise, the king ran to the edge of the river bank and dove in and fought the rapids and pushed the man ashore till he could grab hold of a rock. The rapids then carried the king over the falls and ended his life. The people were angry at this convicted criminal who had been saved at the expense of the life of the king. They said to him, “You’d better be different now because you are the man the king…
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