Then the second came and said, 'Your five pounds has made twenty-five, sir.'

Or, what king, going to make war against another king, does not first sit down, and deliberate whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet him that is coming; against him with twenty thousand?

'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.'

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

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.'

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.'