A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and lentils. ....?!
Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can’t cut a hole in his sack.
How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper’s sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?
Answers:
Pour the lentils into the innkeeper’s sack, bind it and turn inside out. Pour in the peas. Then unbind the sack a pour the lentils back to your sack.
Push the bottom of the innkeepers sack up through the opening of it, so you have the actual sack bottom portion surrounded by a moat or donut shape made by the sides of the sack ( like a sock when you pleat it.
Pour the lentils into the ring shaped sack area, and then the peas into the bottom middle part of the sack. Tie the sack in the middle and you have the lentils in the top of the innkeepers' sack, Put them back in the farmers' sack.