Orange segments

In an orphanage, the boys every year were given a special gift for Christmas. A family that had a large orchard next door to the orphanage used to give a large basket of oranges for the boys. The sisters used to give them one each on Christmas morning. However Jimmy, one of the boys was walking in the mud outside on Christmas Eve, and came in the sitting room nicely carpeted for the season decorated with a large Christmas tree and other decorations and festoons hanging on the walls. Since he left muddy footprints all over the carpet, the sisters were upset with him, and as a punishment they decided not to give him the orange. He cried and cried and as the other 10 boys came down to open their presents, Jimmy stayed on his bed, and covered his face with the pillow, not wanting to hear his friends joyfully celebrating and playing with the simple toys they received. Besides of course relishing that juicy orange ! As he kept sobbing and missing his orange, he heard someone walk by his bed and left something on his little table. Jimmy however didn’t get up and remained in bed. Finally curiosity go the best of him and he looked at the top of the table, and there he saw a small saucer and on it were 10 segments of oranges, placed strategically as if they were from one single orange. He was delighted and he was so happy when he realized what had happened. The other 10 boys, realized that Jimmy was punished by the sisters, and so each of them gave him a segment of their own orange and made up a complete orange, which he enjoyed eating, one segment at a time. And there was joy in the orphanage that Christmas Day.