Below is the story that Madam Tee gave me:
Wise Decision One day,two women arrived at the palace and were shown into King Solomon’s throne room. As they came in, one tried to snatch a bundle from the arms of the other, but the bundle began to cry and scream! It was a baby!
A courtier took the baby and cared for it, while the two women poured out their story to the king.
“ We live together,” the first one began, “ and we both had babies not long ago. My baby was born just two days before hers,”
“ One night, she smothered her baby by accident and it died. While I was asleep,she took my baby from beside me and put her dead baby in its place. I woke up to find that the baby beside me was dead. When I looked again, I realized that it wasn’t my baby at all, but hers!”
The other woman interrupted angrily, “ The dead baby was yours. Mine is the living baby. Yours died!”
The king let them shout and argue for a moment, then he asked them a question.
“ Are you both claiming that this live baby is yours?”
“ Yes!” they shouted together.
“Bring the sword!” the king ordered.
A sword was brought in and Solomon said to one of the courtiers: “ Since both these mothers claim the baby as theirs, cut it into two equal parts and give them one half each.”
At once the baby’s real mother cried out, “ Don’t kill him! I’d rather she have him than neither of us!”
But the other woman said, “ Go on, do as the king said! It’s fair!”
“ Stop!” Solomon thundered. “ Don’t hurt the baby, I want to discover the true mother. The baby belongs to the one who wants to spare his life. Give the baby to her.”
Everyone in Jerusalem heard about the case of the baby and the two mothers. They thought how wise and clever their king must be,if he could think of such a scheme to get at the truth.
*#*I think this story is quite simple. How do u think?