there was once a baker who had a shop in a small town in America
this Baker was not a very kind man,
His bread was the softest bread that you could imagine
sometimes, customers paid for their bread and started eating it
His cakes were really delicious, people came to his shop from all over town when they walked down the street they smelled the baker's wonderful bread and they walked right into his shop but not everyone came inside.
some people just stood outside the shop, smelling and looking in through the windows.
The baker didn't like this, "their stomachs are full of the smell of my bread,
"Perhaps there's some way to put those delicious smell in bottles then I can sell them just like I sell my bread"
One winter morning, very early the Baker was in his shop making bread he wasn't singing happily while he worked he was complaining to himself about getting up early about the cold weather and about anything that came into his head
In the middle of all this, he looked up and saw someone looking in through the window it was a young man wearing an old coat he was looking at the baker's bread and he was hungry he was smelling the fresh bread and smiling
When the baker saw him, he felt very angry
"That Thief outside my shop has a stomach full of the smell of my bread it's a free breakfast I get nothing from for my hard work while he steals my smells"
The man didn't move he just stood there closed his eyes and smelt the fresh bread happily
The baker was really angry now.
He walked across the shop, opened the door and shouted at the man, " pay me!"
"pay you for what?" asked the young man in great surprise.
"For the smells that you've stolen" replied the baker,
when the young man didn't pay, the baker took him by the coat and pulled him through the snow to the judge's house
he knocked on the door after a long time the judge opened the door in his night clothes
it was 5:00 in the morning, what could be so important so early in the day
"this man is a thief, he stole the smells from my shop" said the baker
he went back into the house after a few minutes he came back and he took them inside they all sat down together around a large table
"all right, tell me everything, Baker, you start" said the judge
he listened quietly
First the Baker told him all about the hungry man who stole all his smells
The judge went on listening then the young man told him that I was free and that any man could have as much as he wanted.
when they finished telling their stories the judge was silent for a few minutes
the baker started telling him again of how the other man took all his smell Without Paying
Stop be quiet I've decided what we'll do said the judge
"young man do you have any money?"
the young man put his hand in his pocket and took out a few coins he showed them to the judge and said "sir this is all the money that I have in the world"
"Give those coins to me!" said the judge
the young man put them into the judge's hand
"I've listened carefully to both your stories" began the judge
"it's true that the smells were coming out of the baker's shop and these smells belong to the baker and it's also true that this young man took those smells without paying for them and so I say that the young man has to pay the baker for the smells that he took"
the baker smiled, perhaps for the very first time in his life, he held out his hand at once for the money, but the judge didn't give him the coins
"Baker, listen and listen carefully" he said
he shook the coins in his hands and they clinked together
"Klink-Klink", " that can pay for the smells" he said to the baker
"give me my coins sir!" said the baker. "not smiling anymore"
"no" said the judge
I've decided that the sound of money is the best way to pay for the smell of bread"
and then, he gave the coins back to the poor young man and told him to go home.
