"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want." "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." The bad shepherd; the good shepherd. A miserly master and a merciful master. A Scrooge and a singer of songs. An old farmer and a young warrior. A Prince and a Pauper. A farmer and a fugitive. Nabal and David. Two faces staring at us across the centuries.

The April fool is Nabal. Owner of three thousand sheep and three thousand goats. Married to the prettiest girl in town. Owner of rich pasture lands a few miles south of Hebron. Employer of countless servants who labor for him without benefit of a union contract. A Cadillac cowboy wont to drive his one horsepower stallion down Easy Street. Day after day this fool on a hill counted his coins and surveyed his lands.

One day, ten men who worked for David d…