Okay, in a very big country called Somerville, there was a king. He was a big, fat king and a very rich king. His name was King Bombino. And King Bombino was silly and vain. He was very, very vain. He was a very kind man, very nice man, but he was very vain. He used to love clothes and he used to wear eight types of clothes every day. He had a gown for breakfast, a coat and a jacket for his court time, a different dress for lunch, a pant and shirt for the afternoon, a gown for a walk, another gown for dinner, drinks in another gown, and designer sleeping clothes. He was very vain and never repeated his dresses.

So he used to spend a lot of the kingdom’s money on clothes. People from all over the world would come and make clothes for him because they earned a lot. Whoever showed him a good design would get an order to make 40 coats or gowns so he could wear them for the next five or six days. His clothes were very beautiful, and people would wave to him in admiration.

Then there were two clever crooks from Germany. They said, “We are going to make a lot of money from this king.” They told the king that they had a very special fabric, the thinnest in the world, so soft that it felt like wearing nothing. But only smart and honest people could see it. Silly or dishonest people would not see it.

The king was fascinated. They said it would cost 100 gold coins and take three months to make. The king believed them and trusted that he was smart enough to see the fabric.

After two months, the crooks called the king and asked him to wear only his underwear. They “dressed” him in the invisible fabric. The king could not see any clothes but believed he was wearing something special. The crooks praised the dress, and the king, thinking he might be silly, went along with it.

He called his court to see his new dress. Everyone admired it because they didn’t want to appear silly. No one told him he was actually wearing only underwear.

The king went out in a chariot through his kingdom. Everyone clapped, fearing they would seem foolish if they said otherwise. Then a small boy named Riyat, only five years old, shouted, “Look at the fat king in his underwear!” Everyone realized the king was wearing no clothes. The kingdom laughed and booed, and the king understood that the crooks had fooled him. The tailors had taken the gold coins and run away.

So this is the story. The moral: only believe what you see. Don’t follow what everyone else believes without verifying it yourself.