A shopkeeper had a cask of oil, which he sealed with his ring impression after filling it full.
His assistants, however, found that they could steel oil by drilling a hole near the bottom
of the barrel and plugging it until they wanted to draw off the oil from there.
When the shopkeeper opened his cast and found that, although the top was secure,
the level has gone down. He was baffled. He ask a wiser man, who was a customer at his
shop, what this might mean.
The wise man said, 'some has been drawn off from the bottom: why don't you look
there for the source of your problem?"
'Fool!' shouted the shopkeeper: 'I am talking about the oil that is missing from the top!'
REFERENCE:THE COMMANDING SELF BY IDRIES SHAH
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