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| There was a prince who was hated by his king but
loved by the people. The king decided the prince must
die, but fearing the wrath of the populace, he devised
an elaborate plan to end both the prince's popularity
and his life. He accused him of treason and offered
him trial by Mithras. In this way the Roman god would
judge the innocence or guilt of the accused. The prince
was brought before the king, and a large crowd was
there to see the judgment. Before the prince stood
a priest holding a closed leather pouch, and within
the pouch were two grapes. The law said that one grape
should be white, the other black. If the accused drew
a white grape, he was innocent. A black grape meant
death. The prince knew of the king's hatred and guessed
rightly that there were two black grapes in the pouch.
How did the prince produce a white grape and prove
his innocence?
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| By palming it as he draws it from the bag, then
popping it in his mouth: "Well the grape left
in the bag is black, so the one I drew forth must
have been white": king cannot expose the prince's
treachery without exposing his own.
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