A father dying in a distant land directed that his son should obtain the inheritance if he did three clever things.
The townspeople refused to give the son the address of the house where his father died. He bought a cartload of wood and told the carman to take it to the house of So-and-So: he followed the carman and so found the house. On another occasion he divided a fowl cleverly at dinner, giving the head to the father, the legs to the sons, wings to the daughters, liver etc. to mother and rest to himself. He explained the reason of his dividing in that way and obtained the inheritance.