The emperor hears about a magical new cloth that only wise people can see. He wants this cloth made so he can identify anyone unfit for their position. He pays two "weavers" who claim they can make this cloth, but they are actually pretending and do no work. When the emperor checks on their progress later, he doesn't want to risk looking like a fool himself if he can't see the non-existent cloth, so he sends someone else first to report back.
The emperor hears about a magical new cloth that only wise people can see. He wants this cloth made so he can identify anyone unfit for their position. He pays two "weavers" who claim they can make this cloth, but they are actually pretending and do no work. When the emperor checks on their progress later, he doesn't want to risk looking like a fool himself if he can't see the non-existent cloth, so he sends someone else first to report back.
The emperor hears about a magical new cloth that only wise people can see. He wants this cloth made so he can identify anyone unfit for their position. He pays two "weavers" who claim they can make this cloth, but they are actually pretending and do no work. When the emperor checks on their progress later, he doesn't want to risk looking like a fool himself if he can't see the non-existent cloth, so he sends someone else first to report back.
The emperor hears about a magical new cloth that only wise people can see. He wants this cloth made so he can identify anyone unfit for their position. He pays two "weavers" who claim they can make this cloth, but they are actually pretending and do no work. When the emperor checks on their progress later, he doesn't want to risk looking like a fool himself if he can't see the non-existent cloth, so he sends someone else first to report back.
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These must, indeed, be splendid clothes! thought the Emperor. Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish! This stuff must be woven for me immediately. And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly. So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all. They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night. I should like to know how the weavers are getting on with my cloth, said the Emperor to himself, after some little time had elapsed; he was, however, rather embarrassed, when he remembered that a simpleton, or one unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manufacture. To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair. All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were 3 of 260
