The tree cutters and the wood cutters gave their predictions that the tree will fall on the palace building. But Akinkunmi who had carefully observed the possibly fallen sides of the tree said;

''if there will be a man to sharpen my axe at every fifty cuts then, my two hundred cuts will fall the tree away from the palace building".

The king was relieved a bit of his worries over the tree. Those who heard of it come around and watched him doing it.

Akinkunmi uses his axe sparingly and convincingly. He cut as keenly as he could to the last cuts and yet, the tree stands. Not even a drop of leaf from it.

He looked up the tree to see if something else was holding it from falling but there was nothing _______ confused!

The tree stand? a threat to the throne and more troubles for the whole kingdom.

What then shall we do? the poeple murmured like bees. Suddenly a sounds were heard from the tree. That sounds like the ranting of any falling trees.

Wait wait, Akinkunmi motioned with one of his hands. So everyone waited. The breeze too ceases in maximum silence. And in a jiffy the tree fell, away from the palace... Hay!!! The people shouted in climax...

So Akinkunmi earn a mark of integrity with an exciting thoughts of an imaginative intelligence. What he observed, what he said and what he does bring out a desired results.

© idowu Oluwadamilola Paul