So he called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas [one apiece, each equal to about a hundred days’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business [with this] until I return.’

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

The first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made two hundred, sir!'

And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief,

The second one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made a hundred!'