Story: One Way To Stop A Quarrel by Friedrich Dietz

  A man living in a small town had a nice backyard garden. But his next door neighbor kept a flock of chickens who easily found their way through the holes in the fence and helped themselves to his vegetables. The gardener wondered how he could solve his problem and keep peace in the neighborhood.

The he hit upon a practical idea. He went to the local grocery story and bought some eggs. That evening he took a couple eggs over to his neighbor and said, "Your chickens are laying eggs in my garden,, but I don't want to take what does not belong to me. So, you better take the eggs back."

   The next day the owner of the chickens carefully fixed up all the holes in the fence, and there never was a quarrel between the neighbors.

--- Friedrich Dietz