Okay. So, there's a rich man, in ye olde times, and he's on his way back to his mansion when somebody knocks on the window of his carriage, so he opens the door, and standing there, is a knight. The knight looks at him and says, "I've just fought a terrible dragon, and it's a long way to my kingdom. Please, may I stay and rest at your mansion?" So the rich man says, "Of course!", and he lets the knight into his carriage, and then he drives home. They reach his house, and it's this beautiful, luxurious mansion. They step inside, and the rich man takes the knight to the staircase and says to him: "Go up the stairs, and take the first door on the left," so the knight goes upstairs, and takes the first door on the left, and it opens up into this huge, magnificent bedroom, with an enormous four-poster bed, and an en-suite bathroom, and the knight sits down on the bed, takes his armour off, nurses his burns and falls asleep. Meanwhile, the rich man downstairs is enjoying his pipe, when there's a knock on the door. Now the rich man is thinking "Who could it be at this time of night?" so he goes to the door, and opens it, and there's a knight there, and the knight says "I've just fought in an epic war, and I need somewhere to rest for the night," and the rich man says "O.K., just go up those stairs, and take the second door on the left, and there will be a bed and somewhere to freshen up. So the knight goes upstairs, and he takes the second door on the left, and again, it's a beautiful room. so he freshens up, cleans his wounds, splashes some aftershave on, and falls asleep. Now, downstairs, the rich man is just getting ready to go to bed himself, when he hears a knock on the door! So, he's a little bit annoyed, but he goes and opens it, and there's a beautiful princes-nah, I'm kidding, it's a knight. The knight says that he's just fought a terrible and powerful wizard, blah blah blah, freshen up, yadda yadda yadda. The rich man points him to the second room on the right, the knight goes upstairs, falls onto the bed, you know the rest. A few minutes later, the rich man comes upstairs, goes in the first door on the right, falls asleep.
In the morning, the first knight comes downstairs, and the rich man is there, eating a bowl of cornflakes. He asks the knight what he would like for breakfast, and the knight has a choice between kippers and cornflakes. So the knight thinks, and he decides that he'll have kippers, because it's a good source of protein and all that. So he has his kippers and toast, says goodbye to the rich man, and sets off for his own kingdom. Then, the second knight comes down, and he has cornflakes for breakfast, sets off for his kingdom, the third knight comes down, decides to have kippers. He has his kippers, with toast, and a big wodge of butter, and he eventually sets off.
So, the motto of the story is:
Two out of three knights prefer kippers for breakfast.
