In a small town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of money to a loan-shark. The businessowner had a beautiful, young daughter as his only child.
I will place two pebbles into a bag, one white and one black.Your daughter would then have to reach into the bag and pick out a pebble. If it is black, I will release your debt but will then marry her. If it is white, the debt would also be wiped, but I will not marry her.
The loan-shark was a very old, unattractive looking guy that just so happened to fancy the business owner’s daughter.
He decided tooffer the businessman a deal that would completely wipe out the debt he owed him. However, the catch was that we would only wipe out the debt if he could marry the businessman’s daughter.
The loan-shark said..
Standing on a pebble-strewn path in the businessman’s garden, the loan-shark bent over and picked up two pebbles.
Whilst he was picking them up, the daughter noticed that he’d picked up two black pebbles and placed them both into the bag.