'Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,' answered the man. 'Here is your agreement,' he said; 'sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.'

"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

He called in ten of his slaves and gave them twenty dollars apiece and told them to do business with his money while he was gone.

Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

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

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

So he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him and give it to the man who has the two hundred.'

"Show me a twenty-cent coin. Whose picture and title does it bear?" They answered, "Caesar's."