Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared andAnnounced to the villagers that he would buy monkeysfor Rs. 10/-The villagers seeing that there were many monkeysAround, went out to the forest and started catchingThem.The man bought thousands at Rs. 10/- and as supplyStarted to diminish, the villagers stopped theireffort. He further announced that he would now buy atRs. 20/- This renewed the efforts of the villagers andthey started catching monkeys again.Soon the supply diminished even further and peoplestarted going back to their farms. The offer rateincreased to Rs. 25/- and the supply of monkeys becameso little that it was an effort to even see a monkey,let alone catch it!The man now announced that he would buy monkeys atRs50! However, since he had to go to the city on somebusiness, his assistant would now buy on behalf ofhim.In the absence of the man, the assistant told thevillagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cagethat the man has collected. I will sell them to you atRs35 and when the man returns from the city, you cansell it to him for Rs. 50/-The villagers squeezed up with all their savings andbought all the monkeys.Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, onlymonkeys everywhere!!!
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