Once upon a time a certain king sent a message to another king.It said，"Send me a blue pig with a 1 tail，or else..."
The other replied，"I haven't one；if I had..."
Both kings were so2 that they went to war with each other.Brave men were killed，and women and children3 because they could get nothing to eat.
When it seemed that both sides couldn't win the war，the kings began to talk about 4 .
First of all，it was important to5 the two messages.
"What did you mean，"asked the second king，"by saying，or else？'"
"Why，"said the first king，"I could mean only one thing.I meant that I wanted you to send me a blue pig with a black tail
"Oh，that was all，wasn't it？I did not get the whole of your6 ，"answered the second king.
"Ah，but I must know what you meant by your reply to my message，"asked the first king，'I haven't one；if I had...'"
"Why，my answer is very7 ，but you didn't understand.I meant that I hadn't one；if I had，I should have sent it to you."
"Well，well!"said the first king，"We have been8 about nothing.If we had only explained these things before the9 started，then these silly things must have been stopped."
So the great war of the blue pig with the black tail was10 in the history books.It stopped such a war happening again.
