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 The whole town knew about the cloth's peculiar power, 
and all were impatient to find out how stupid their 
neighbors were.

"I'll send my honest old minister to the weavers," the 
Emperor decided. 

"He'll be the best one to tell me how the material looks, 
for he's a sensible man and no one does his duty better."

So the honest old minister went to the room where the 
two swindlers sat working away at their empty looms.

"Heaven help me," he thought as his eyes flew wide 
open,"I can't see anything at all". But he did not say so.

Both the swindlers begged him to be so kind as to come 
near to approve the excellent pattern, the beautiful 
colors. 
They pointed to the empty looms, and the poor old 
minister stared as hard as he dared. 

He couldn't see anything, because there was nothing to 
see. "Heaven have mercy," he thought.

 "Can it be that I'm a fool? I'd have never guessed it, 
and not a soul must know.



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Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly 
fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being 
well dressed. 

He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to 
the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to 
show off his new clothes. 

He had a coat for every hour of the day, and instead of 
saying, as one might, about any other ruler, "The King's
 in council," here they always said. "The Emperor's in his 
dressing room."

In the great city where he lived, life was always gay. 
Every day many strangers came to town, and among them 
one day came two swindlers. 

They let it be known they were weavers, and they said they 
could weave the most magnificent fabrics imaginable. 
Not only were their colors and patterns uncommonly fine, 
but clothes made of this cloth had a wonderful way of 
becoming invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office, 
or who was unusually stupid.
"Those would be just the clothes for me," thought the Emperor. 

"If I wore them I would be able to discover which men in my 
empire are unfit for their posts. And I could tell the wise men 
from the fools. 

Yes, I certainly must get some of the stuff woven for me right 
away." 
He paid the two swindlers a large sum of money to start work 
at once.

They set up two looms and pretended to weave, though there 
was nothing on the looms. All the finest silk and the purest old 
thread which they demanded went into their traveling bags, 
while they worked the empty looms far into the night.

"I'd like to know how those weavers are getting on with the cloth,
" the Emperor thought, but he felt slightly uncomfortable when he 
remembered that those who were unfit for their position would not 
be able to see the fabric. 

It couldn't have been that he doubted himself, yet he thought he'd 
rather send someone else to see how things were going.  ... 




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